Claus Jacob
Dr. Claus Jacob B.Sc. M.A. D.Phil. FRSC CChem is a German scientist and politician functioning as the Head of Bioorganic Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Saarland University and a member of the Ecological Democratic Party and represents the Family Party of Germany in the Orstrat Hassel / Saar. He is currently a candidate to the Bundestag on behalf of ÖDP, Homburg constituency. Jacob is known to many of his students as Professor Claus rather than Professor Jacob. This is due to cultural reasons stemming from the rich international environment of his research team and Global collaborations. He received his B.Sc. 1st class in Chemistry in 1993 from the University of Leicester, England and his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1997. Jacob had interests in education, psychology, history and philosophy and was awarded a Magister Artium from the University of Hagen in 1998. He is an expert in a variety of topics ranging from organic synthesis, bioorganic chemistry, catalytic sensor/effector agents, intracellular diagnostics, nanotechnology, natural products, reactive sulfur and selenium species, and redox regulation via the cellular thiolstat. He has contributed more than 200 publications to the previously mentioned fields.
Academic appointments
- Fellowship The Royal Society of Chemistry 2018-
- Full Professor Saarland University 2011-
- Junior Professor Saarland University 2005-2011
- Visiting Professor Université de Metz 2004, 2005
- Senior Lecturer University of Exeter 2004-2005
- Lecturer University of Exeter 1999-2004
- Visiting Scientist Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf 1999
- BASF Research Fellow German Merit Foundation, at Harvard Medical School 1998-1999
- Feodor Lynen Fellow Humboldt Foundation fellowship at Harvard University 1997-1998
- Research Fellow Harvard Medical School 1996-1999