Education within Molecular Biomimetics

Molecular biomimetics is not one subject, but many! If you are interested in studies in any of our areas, these are the options (given in English):

• Master programme in chemistry  
• ​List of the individual chemistry courses 

You can also check our information about education at research level and available PhD positions.

If you are interested in conducting a degree project within molecular biomimetics, please contact johannes.messinger@kemi.uu.se or directly a PI listed below.

Biophysical and Bioinorganic Chemistry 

• Effects of mutations on putative proton and water transfer pathways in PSII

         PI: Felix Ho (felix.ho@kemi.uu.se ) 

•  Protein engineering of a hydrogenase to increase H₂ production for energy purposes

         PI: Ann Magnuson (ann.magnuson@kemi.uu.se)

•  ¹⁸O/¹⁶O isotope ratio of synthetic water oxidation catalysts

         PI: Michael Cheah (michael.cheah@kemi.uu.se)

• Substrate exchange kinetics of PSII

         PI’s: Michael Cheah/Johannes Messinger (johannes.messinger@kemi.uu.se )

• Changes in photosystem I and II ratio in C. reinhardtii grown at different light intensities studied by in vivo EPR

         PI: Fikret Mamedov (fikret.mamedocv@kemi.uu.se )

• Photoactivation of oxygen evolution in dark grown C. reinhardtii studied by flash induced fluorescence and oxygen release measurements

         PI: Fikret Mamedov (fikret.mamedocv@kemi.uu.se )

• Electrochemical investigation of photocatalysis on plasmonic nanoparticles

         PI: Alina Sekretareva (alina.sekretareva@kemi.uu.se)

• Mechanistic investigation of biocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)

         PI: Alina Sekretareva (alina.sekretareva@kemi.uu.se)

• (Semi-)artificial photosynthesis – driving whole-cell biocatalysis with artificial light-harvesters

         PI: Gustav Berggren (gustav.berggren@kemi.uu.se)

• Understanding biological H₂ metabolism

         PI: Gustav Berggren (gustav.berggren@kemi.uu.se)

Microbial Chemistry

• Improving bioproduction of alkenes as raw material for jet fuels -Redirecting carbon flow in cyanobacteria

         PI: Karin Stensjö (karin.stensjo@kemi.uu.se)