Researchers
Philipp Baur is an early career researcher with an interdisciplinary background at the Institute of Molecular Bioscience. After obtaining his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the TU Munich (GER), he completed an international double-degree master’s program in materials science (“MaMaSELF”) at the Universities of Turin (ITA), Montpellier (FRA) and Stanford University (US). He went on to join the new Max Planck School MatterToLife where in 2023 he completed his PhD in bioinorganic chemistry at the lab of Peter Comba (Universität Heidelberg), investigating the biological function patellamides, of a group of copper(II) binding cyclic peptides made by cyanobacteria, for which he organized two field trips to the Great Barrier Reef and received a thesis award. He has a strong background in neutron- and synchrotron-based research techniques and has worked and published in different areas such as synthetic and computational chemistry as well as biology/botany.
