Modern Avenues in Metal-Nucleic Acid Chemistry (PDF)

Jens Müller holds a Chair of Inorganic Chemistry (2018) at the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany. He obtained his doctoral degree (1999, summa cum laude) from the Technische Universität Dortmund, working with Bernhard Lippert. After a postdoctoral stay in the groups of Stephen J. Lippard (MIT) and Gerhard Wagner (Harvard Medical School), he started his independent career at the Technische Universität Dortmund in 2002, funded by the prestigious Emmy Noether Programme. After having received his Habilitation in 2008, he became Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. His research focuses on the bioinorganic chemistry of nucleic acids, with a particular interest in metal-mediated base pairing. He was Dean of Student Affairs from 2011-2014, Chair of the European research initiative COST Action CM1105 ("Functional metal complexes that bind to biomolecules"), and guest Editor of several themed issues of chemistry journals. Since 2018, he has served as the Editor of Inorganica Chimica Acta. He is the Chair of EuroBIC-17 (2024 in Münster, Germany).

Bernhard Lippert retired in 2011 from Chair of Bioinorganic Chemistry at the Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany. He received his Ph.D. degree from Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany, in 1974. Following a postdoctoral stay with Barnett Rosenberg at the Biophysics Department of Michigan State University, USA, he started his independent research at TUM, which was focused on fundamental aspects of interactions of metal species, notably of Pt, with nucleobases, as well as supramolecular constructs derived from these components. During his career at TUM, the University of Freiburg, Germany, and TU Dortmund, he has trained 70 PhD students and in addition numerous Bachelor and Master students as well as postdoctoral fellows, a fair number of whom eventually earned academic positions.