Tilmann Weber
Technical University of Denmark
Biography
Tilmann Weber holds a Diploma in Biology (1999), a PhD (Dr. rer. nat., 2004), and a Habilitation in Microbiology (2012) from Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Germany. Following his PhD, he was a Wissenschaftlicher Assistent and Group Leader at the Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine at Tübingen University. In 2013, he joined the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Biosustain) as a Senior Researcher and Co-Principal Investigator.
In 2018, he was appointed Professor of Natural Products Genome Mining at DTU Biosustain and was promoted to Associate Scientific Director in 2021. Tilmann is a faculty member at the DNRF-funded Center of Excellence “Center for Microbial Secondary Metabolites” at DTU, coordinator of the MSCA-Doctoral Network “MAGic-MOLFUN,” and head of the DTU Biosustain PhD school.
Tilmann's research integrates various ‘omics technologies, computational biology, and metabolic engineering to develop and apply new tools for the discovery, characterization, and engineering of bioactive natural products. He and his team and international collaborators maintain the antiSMASH genome mining platform, the antiSMASH database, and host the community-curated MIBiG BGC reference dataset.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Natural Product Reports (NPR)