Konrad received his chemical basic education at the Technical University of Vienna and the University of Texas in Austin. After finishing his diploma thesis in the lab of Prof. Fröhlich, he pursued his interest in total synthesis of biologically active natural products during a Ph.D. in the lab of Prof. Mulzer at the University of Vienna. He then moved to Prof. Rebek’s lab at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla to learn about molecular recognition and self-assembly. In 2012 he started his independent career as a Junior professor (W1-position) at the Technical University Munich. In June 2016 he was appointed to a dual tenure track assistant professorship position at the University of Basel and the ETH Zürich, and received tenure in 2020. 

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Prof. Konrad Tiefenbacher University of Basel Department of Chemistry BPR 1096, Mattenstrasse 24a CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland ETH Zürich Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering Mattenstrasse 26 CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland Email: konrad.tiefenbacher (at) unibas.ch tkonrad (at) ethz.ch