Claudia Höbartner
University of Würzburg
Biography
Claudia Höbartner is a Professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg. She studied chemistry at the Technical University of Vienna and at ETH Zürich, and earned her PhD from the University of Innsbruck in 2004. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, she joined the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen as a research group leader. In 2014, Claudia was appointed as associate professor at the University of Göttingen, and since 2017 she has been a full professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg. The main research interests in her lab concern the chemistry and chemical biology of functional nucleic acids and nucleic acid modifications, with a focus on structures, mechanisms and applications of ribozymes and aptamers.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, RSC Chemical Biology