Department of Chemistry
University of Bielefeld
Bielefeld
Germany
Scientific career
1999 - present | Full Professor of Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry at Bielefeld University |
1992 - 1998 | Habilitation at University of Leipzig "β-Aminosäuren enthaltende Peptide: Asymmetrische Synthese von β-Aminosäuren, Festphasenpeptidsynthese und NMR-spektroskopische Konformationsanalyse" |
1991 - 1992 | Postdoc under supervision of Prof. J.E. Baldwin, Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Oxford University; "Biomimetic Synthesis of Penicillin" |
1988 - 1991 | Dissertation under supervision of Prof. Dr K. Burger, Technische Universität München |
1988 | Diploma in Chemistry, Technische Universität München |
Research areas
The work of the Sewald group is focused on organic chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, peptide chemistry, natural product chemistry, as well as on structure determination and conformational analysis by NMR spectroscopy and molecular dynamics calculations.
Thematic issues
Prof. Sewald edited the following thematic issues in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry:
Late-stage diversification of peptides
Antibiotic and cytotoxic peptides
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