Sebastian studied biochemistry at the University of Greifswald and earned his M.Sc. in the working group of Prof. Lalk in December 2016 by characterizing natural products used in TCM. Afterward, he started working at Enzymicals AG in Greifswald as a chemist in R&D and analytics for three years.

 

In 2020, he joined the working group of ‘Pharmaceutical Biotechnology’ of Prof. Luzhetskyy at Saarland University as a PhD student. During his PhD, his goal is to solve the biosynthetic pathways of natural products via heterologous expression.

 

Additional research interests of him lies in exploring and characterizing natural products, as well as in the development of pharmaceutical precursors.