Andrea Rentmeister studied Chemistry at the Technical University of Graz and the University of Bonn, where she earned her PhD in 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Michael Famulok. After a postdoctoral stay at the California Institute of Technology with Prof. Frances H. Arnold, she started her independent career as a Junior Professor at the University of Hamburg in 2010. In 2013, Andrea was appointed as Associate Professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, and in 2020 promoted to Full Professor. Since 2024, she is Chair of Organic and Biological Chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. She was awarded an Emmy Noether Fellowship (2012), the Hoechst-Award of the Aventis Foundation (2015), an ERC Consolidator Grant (2018) and an ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant (2022), and the Wittig-Grignard Award (2024). She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a corresponding member abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Research in her lab focuses on RNA at the interface of chemistry and biochemistry and aims to understand and ultimately control the processes affecting mRNA expression and turnover.
Andrea Rentmeister
