Dirk Trauner

Dirk Trauner was born and grew up in Linz, Austria. After studying biology and then biochemistry at the University of Vienna, he joined Professor Johann Mulzer’s group at the Free University of Berlin to pursue natural products synthesis. In the late 1990s, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Samuel J. Danishefsky at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. In 2000, Dirk joined the University of California, Berkeley, where he currently resides as an associate professor of chemistry. His research interests range from organic reactions and natural products to molecular machines, ion channels, and neurons. Office: 602 Latimer Hall Phone: (510) 643-5507 Email: trauner@cchem.berkeley.edu Need Motivation? English-German Dictionary