Thomas J. Schmidt

Professor of Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry at the University of Münster, Germany.

Prof. Dr. Thomas J. Schmidt *1963 Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry University of Muenster PharmaCampus, Corrensstrasse 48 D-48149 Muenster, Germany Email: thomschm@uni-muenster.de

Thomas J. Schmidt, born in 1963, studied Pharmacy (1986-1990) and obtained his doctorate in Pharmaceutical Biology (1990-1994) as well as the habilitation (1999) at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. He was a DFG post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, in 1995. After habilitation, he became an assistant professor in Düsseldorf and then took a professorship of Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry at the University of Münster, Germany, in 2005. In 2009, he was a visiting Professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and is the founder and European coordinator of the Research Network Natural Products against Neglected Diseases (ResNet NPND; www.resnetnpnd.org). Most of his scientific work is dedicated to the isolation, structural characterization and computer-aided structure-bioactivity relationship studies of new natural products from plants, with a strong emphasis on anti-cancer and anti-infective compounds against neglected tropical diseases. He is a member of various scientific societies and boards and has received several awards for his work, which was published in over 200 publications. He served on the editorial board of Molecules as Associate Editor since 2014, was the section Editor-in-Chief for Natural Products Chemistry from 2016-2023 and currently is the journal’s EiC since September 2023.