Christian Becker, Ph.D.

Professor and Head of the Institute of Biological at University of Vienna

Speaker

Christian F.W. Becker studied chemistry at the University of Dortmund (Germany) and obtained his diploma in 1998. After receiving his PhD in 2001 from the same university, he became a postdoctoral fellow with Gryphon Therapeutics from 2002 to 2003. He started his independent career as a group leader at the Max-Planck Institute in Dortmund, Germany in 2004 and was appointed as Professor for Protein Chemistry at the Technische Universität München in 2007. In 2010, he co-founded Syntab Therapeutics GmbH, a company dedicated to the development of peptide-based immune-stimulating therapeutics. In 2011, he became Professor and Head of the Institute of Biological Chemistry at the University of Vienna. There he was head of the Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem) between 2020-2024 and became Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry in 2024. His group develops and uses chemical as well as biochemical means to generate peptides and proteins with otherwise unattainable modifications to address fundamental biochemical as well as biomedical and biotechnological questions.