Kurt Faber
Profession
Full Professor at University of Graz, Department of Chemistry, Organic & Bioorganic Chemistry
ACIB Function
Head of the research field Biocatalytic Synthesis
Contact
kurt.faber@acib.at
Kurt Faber, born 1953 in Klagenfurt (Carinthia/Austria), studied chemistry at the University of Graz, where he received his PhD in 1982. After a post-doctoral fellowship from 1982 to 1983 in St. John’s (Canada) he continued his career at the University of Technology in Graz, where he became associate professor in 1997.
The following year he was appointed full professor at the University of Graz, where he estabilished a research group devoted to the use of biocatalysts for the transformation of non-natural compounds together with Prof. Wolfgang Kroutil. Kurt Faber was a visiting scientist at University of Tokyo (1987/1988), Exeter University (1990), University of Trondheim (1994), Stockholm University (2001), University of Minnesota (2005) and the ESPCI Paris (2010) and authored more than 230 papers and a textbook, which will appear in its 6th edition in 2011.
Within ACIB Kurt Faber is responsible for the research field of biocatalytic synthesis. The driving force of the biocatalysis-group is the development of biocatalytic methods for (asymmetric) organic synthesis, where traditional (chemical) methodology is either not available, inefficient or non-selective.
Within ACIB Kurt Faber is the head of the research field Biocatalysitc Synthesis.
