Meet the Guest Editor (Jurgen Scherkenbeck)

Abstract

Jurgen Scherkenbeck was born in Remscheid, Germany in 1960 and obtained his diploma degree in chemistry from the Ruhr- University Bochum in 1985. His doctoral work in the field of natural product synthesis was performed under the supervision of Professor Peter Welzel at Bochum. In 1988 he took up a position within Central Research at Bayer AG in Leverkusen. During his industrial research career he has been involved in diverse research areas, including pheromone synthesis, peptide chemistry and combinatorial chemistry. From 1999 to 2000, he spent one year as an Associate Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and following his return to Central Research, he became head of the Combinatorial Chemistry Department. In 2002 he moved to Bayer CropScience where he is currently head of an insecticide chemistry group. He is author or co-author of around 70 scientific papers and patents and holds an honorary professorship at the University of Leipzig.