Thisbe Lindhorst

Lindhorst was born on 19 November 1962 in Munich. She studied chemistry at LMU Munich from 1981 to 1984 and chemistry with biochemistry at the University of Münster from 1985 to 1987. She achieved a PhD at the University of Hamburg in 1991, She undertook her postdoctorate at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada from 1992, focusing on carbohydrates and dendrimers, before returning to Hamburg to earn her habilitation in 1998. ==Career==

In 2000, Lindhorst was appointed Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at Kiel University; she was the first woman to hold the post since the Second World War. In 2015, Lindhorst was elected president of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) for the 2016–2017 term. She was second women to hold the position in the society's 150-year history. In August 2017, she wrote the editorial for Angewandte Chemie celebrating the GDCh's anniversary, noting chemistry's moral and ethical duties, and pushing for "a culture that has the well-being of the entire population and the planet in mind". Research Lindhorst is an expert in carbohydrate chemistry and has written over 150 research papers. She was also made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2017. ==Personal life==

Lindhorst has two children, born in 1991 and 1995. ==References==