Department of Chemistry
Umeå University
Sweden
Scientific career
Since 2017 | Associate Professor at Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Sweden |
2009 - 2018 | Group leader at Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences (ISAS), Department of Bioanalytics, Germany |
2008 - 2009 | Postdoctoral studies with Prof. Herbert Waldmann, Chemical Biology, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany |
2006 - 2007 | Postdoctoral research with Prof. Horst Kunz, Organic Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany |
2005 - 2006 | Employed at IsoSep AB contract synthesis division, Sweden |
2005 | PhD in Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Norberg, Department of Chemistry, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
2001 | BSc in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden |
Research areas
- Carbohydrate chemistry
- Glycopeptide synthesis
- Glycoproteomics
- Glycan and glycopeptide microarrays
- Protein-carbohydrate binding interactions
- Chemical glycobiology
- Bioorganic chemistry
Thematic issue
Prof. Westerlind edited the following thematic issue in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry:
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