Honorary Professor
until 03/2015 Head of Research Area Optical Measurement Technology (Infrared Measurment Technology) at the Institute of Measurement Technology / TUHH
1. Introduction: Impact and potential of enzyme-catalysed processes in biotechnology.
2. History of microbial and enzymatic biotransformations.
3. Chirality - definition & measurement
4. Basic biochemical reactions, structure and function of enzymes.
5. Biocatalytic retrosynthesis of asymmetric molecules
6. Enzyme kinetics: mechanisms, calculations, multisubstrate reactions.
7. Reactors for biotransformations.