Dr. Rainer Ebel

Rainer Ebel received his PhD at the University of Würzburg, Germany, where he studied the chemical ecology of Mediterranean sponges under the guidance of Professor Peter Proksch. He undertook postdoctoral research with Professor Phil Crews at the University of California at Santa Cruz, working on the natural product chemistry of sponge-derived fungi. In 2000, he joined the Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany, and, in 2007, he joined the University of Aberdeen, where he currently holds the position of Reader in Organic Chemistry at the Marine Biodiscovery Centre. The research carried out in his lab includes the isolation and structural characterization of biologically active natural products from varied terrestrial and marine sources.