Prof. Seraphine Wegner is a full professor at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry at the University of Münster, Germany. She obtained her bachelor in chemistry in 2005 at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey and her PhD in chemistry in 2010 at the University of Chicago, USA. In 2011, she started as an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral researcher under the guidance of Prof. Joachim Spatz at the University of Heidelberg and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany. In 2016, she started her independent research group at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany, which is part of MaxSynBio, the network for bottom-up synthetic
biology of the Max Planck Society. She has been awarded several prestigious prizes such Eliteprogramm Fellowship of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation (2014), the Fellowship of the Daimler und Benz Foundation (2016) and the ERC Starting Grant (2017).