Dr. Larissa K.S. von Krbek
Emmy Noether junior research group leader
Kekulé-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Gerhard-Domagk-Str. 1
53121 Bonn
room: 5.090
phone: +49 (0)228 73 5608
Larissa studied chemistry at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, having worked in the groups of Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Reissig on carbohydrate-mimetics synthesis, Prof. Dr. Beate Paulus on DFT calculations of crown-ether/ammonium pseudorotaxanes, and Prof. Dr. Christoph A. Schalley on multivalent supramolecular complexes. She was awarded a fellowship of the German Academic Foundation to do her PhD studies on the thermodynamic analysis of multivalent crown-ether/ammonium systems in the group of Prof. Dr. Christoph A. Schalley. In 2016, she obtained a Dr. rer. nat. in chemistry.
During her following postdoctoral stay in the group of Prof. Jonathan Nitschke at the University of Cambridge (2017–2020), she was working on stimuli responsive metal-organic cages and combining cages with classical supramolecular crown-ether/ammonium motives. She was funded by a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
In Summer 2020, Larissa moved to Bonn to start her independent career working in the field of systems chemistry and out-of-equilibrium self-assembly with a Liebig Fellowship (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie) and later the Emmy Noether Programme (German Science Foundation).
Outside the lab, Larissa enjoys good food, yoga, running, and spending time with her small family.
Short CV
Since 2020
2017–2020
2012–2016
2015
2010–2012
2007–2010
Junior research group leader (Habilitand), Kekulé-Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bonn.
Postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Jonathan R. Nitschke, University of Cambridge.
PhD studies with Prof. Dr. Christoph A. Schalley, Freie Universität Berlin.
Visiting PhD with Prof. Jonathan R. Nitschke, University of Cambridge.
Master’s studies in chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin.
Master’s thesis with Prof. Dr. Christoph A. Schalley
Undergraduate studies in chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin.
Bachelor thesis with Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Reissig
Selected awards and grants
2024
2023
2023
2022
2022
2021
2020
2017
2017
2015
2013
2012
University of St Andrews – University of Bonn Collaborative Research Grant, together with Euan R. Kay and Douglas Philp
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher Prize For Equal Opportunities In Chemistry of the GDCh as a board member of WISC
Thieme Chemistry Journals Award 2023
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Teaching Award 2021
Foresight Institute 2022 Fellow (Molecular Machines Group)
Emmy Noether Programme, DFG.
Liebig fellowship, Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI).
Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Affiliated Member of Christ’s College, Cambridge.
Research fellowship, Center of International Collaboration of FU Berlin.
PhD fellowship, German Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).
Short-term PhD fellowship, graduate school of CRC 765.
Conferences and science communication
Conference organisation
2023
2021
2023 Systems Chemistry Virtual Symposium
organized jointly with Dibyendu Das, Lauren Zarzar, Giulio Ragazzon, and Thomas Hermans
Virtual nanoGe conference on Systems Chemistry: ChemSystemsMeet
organised jointly with Ivan Aprahamian
Invited talks
10/2024
09/2024
06/2024
04/2024
12/2023
09/2023
06/2023
06/2023
07/2022
07/2022
07/2022
06/2022
05/2022
12/2021
09/2021
07/2021
International Symposium of Nano and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISNSC-13), Santa Margherita di Pula (IT).
Mach-5 (Molecular Machinery: Modelling, Making, Measuring), Bertinoro Castle (IT).
Departmental seminar, University of Marburg (Marburg, D)
Departmental seminar, University of St Andrews (St Andrews, UK)
Departmental seminar, University of Duisburg-Essen (Essen, D)
796th WE-Heraeus-Seminar: "Photoinduced, Charge‐Driven, and Molecular Processes under Confinement", Bad Honnef (D)
ISMSC 2023 (International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry), Reykjavík (IS)
Departmental seminar, University of Cologne (D)
2nd ArtMoMa ITN Summer School, Oxford (UK)
761st WE-Heraeus-Seminar: "Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics – The past, the present, and the future", Bad Honnef (D)
International Conference on Programmable Materials, Berlin (D)
Departmental seminar, ICIQ Tarragona (ES)
ChemSystemsChem & Chemistry — A European Journal: Virtual Symposium on Dissipative Self-Assembly
Foresight Institute vision weekend (Molecular Machines Group, 2022 Foresight fellow), Villecien (F)
3rd NOAH ITN Summer School: "Kinetic and Thermodynamic characterisation tools for supramolecular complexes", Berlin (D)
2021 Systems Chemistry Virtual Symposium (flash talk)
Editorials
01/2023
02/2022
Editorial advisory board member for ChemSystemsChem (Chemistry Europe)
Guest editor for a Supramolecular Chemistry special issue on first generation supramolecular chemists
WISC board member (women in supramolecular chemistry network)
FREQ network (Female Research Equality network of the Fonds der chemischen Industrie)
GDCh