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Prof. Zeymer (b. 1985) conducts research in the field of artificial metalloenzymes. These catalysts combine the reactivity of metal complexes with the selectivity of proteins. They are generated by rational design and subsequently optimized for specific chemical reactions by laboratory evolution. Prof. Zeymer’s group utilizes both natural proteins and de novo protein scaffolds, which are designed computationally, as starting points to develop these novel catalysts. In addition to applying the artificial metalloenzymes in biocatalysis, the detailed analysis of their molecular structure and mechanism is one of the lab’s key objectives.

Prof. Zeymer studied Chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden and the University of California Berkeley. She performed her PhD studies in Biochemistry/Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg. In 2015, Prof. Zeymer joined ETH Zurich as a postdoctoral fellow and has been leading an independent junior research group since 2018. She was appointed as Tenure Track Assistant Professor for Protein Chemistry at TUM in 2020.