Group Members

Matthias Spanka

Former Post-Doctoral Fellow

PhD, University of Leipzig, Germany
m.spanka [ at ] studserv.uni-leipzig.de

Research Interests:

• synthetic chemistry
• organic chemistry
• pharmaceutical chemistry
• small molecule drug synthesis
• computational chemistry
• rational drug design

I started my education in chemistry at the University of Leipzig in 2010 with a specialization in organic chemistry. After graduating, I joined Prof. Schneider in 2016 to pursue my PhD studies on asymmetric organocatalysis. My primary interest was the development of new methodologies involving highly transient o-quinone methide intermediates in enantioselective transformations. Furthermore, I participated in multiple interdisciplinary research collaborations. Starting in April 2020, I joined the Meiler lab as post-doctoral researcher with the focus on teaching, rational in silico drug design, and synthesizing small molecule drugs.

Publication Link:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=de&user=lDJQyXIAAAAJ