Alex was born in Germany and studied Chemistry at the University of Münster since 1993, where he received his diploma degree in 1998 and his doctoral degree in 2000 for work in Professor Hoppe's group on novel cyclization reactions with enantioenriched allyllithium compounds. In 2001 he joined Professor Martin's lab at the University of Texas at Austin where her worked as a postdoctoral fellow on the total synthesis of indole alkaloids. In 2002 he began another postdoctorate in Professor Schultz's lab at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla where he was engaged in the in vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids into proteins. He joined the Department of Chemistry at North Carolina State University as an Assistant Professor in 2004. He is a member of the Biotechnology Faculty, the RNA Biology Group at NCSU, the RNA Society of North Carolina, and the Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research. His research interests range from combinatorial chemistry to biological chemistry. He received several awards for his research, most importantly for the best dissertation at the Departments for Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Computer Science at the University of Münster in 2001. His work was continously supported by fellowships from the German National Academic Foundation, the Fund of the Chemical Industry, the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, and the German Research Foundation. In 2006, he received a Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Award from the March of Dimes Foundation. Recently, Alex was awarded a Sigma Xi Research Faculty Award, a Cottrell Scholar Award, and a Beckman Young Investigator Award.
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