Mrs Anna K.H. Hirsch

Prof. Anna K. H. Hirsch obtained her M. Sci. from the University of Cambridge and her Ph.D. from the ETH Zurich in 2008 under Prof. F. Diederich. After a postdoc in Prof. J.-M. Lehn's group, she became assistant professor at the University of Groningen in 2010 and associate professor in 2015.

In 2017, she became head of the department "Drug Design and Optimization" at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) and full professor at Saarland University. She focuses on target-based anti-infective drug discovery, recognized by numerous prizes such as the Innovation Prize for Medicinal Chemistry of the GdCh/DPhG.