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Morten Meldal is the new director of the Nano-Science Center
As of March, Morten Meldal is the new professor in nanochemistry at the University of Copenhagen, and director of the Nano-Science Center. He has been the leader of the Solid Phase Organic Combinatorial Chemistry Center at Carlsberg since 1988.
- I look forward to doing fundamental research again. I take a philosophical point of view and appreciate the thought of doing research beneficial to society as a whole, for instance through the development of new nanomedicine. One of my personal qualities is my ability to solve problems. I have participated in the development of techniques and chemistry which, to this day, are utilized by many researchers all over the world, says Morten Meldal who among other things developed "click"-chemistry to construct large complex molecular architectures as a kind of molecular LEGO.
Since obtaining his Master's degree from DTU in 1980, Morten Meldal has worked as postdoc at the University of Cambridge in England, at DTU and at the University of Copenhagen as well as working as professor at Carlsberg. In 2004 he became honorary professor at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
