Biography
Jasmin Mecinovic is a Professor in Chemistry at the University of Southern Denmark. He received the BSc degree in Chemistry with highest distinction from the University of Ljubljana (2005). He was a Newton-Abraham predoctoral fellow, and received the PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Oxford (2009) under the supervision of Professor Christopher J. Schofield, FRS. Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, where he worked in the group of Professor George M. Whitesides.
Jasmin started his independent research career as an Assistant Professor at Radboud University in 2011. He was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark in 2018 and promoted to Professor in 2023. He has been an ERC Starting Grant holder (2017-2022), a Lundbeck Foundation Ascending Investigator (2021-2026) and a Novo Nordisk Foundation NERD Investigator (2024-2030). The research in his group is centered around fundamental aspects of genuinely important biomolecular recognition and biocatalysis that play key roles in human health and disease.
Appointments
01/2023 – present ProfessorUniversity of Southern Denmark
Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy
09/2018 – 12/2022 Associate Professor
University of Southern Denmark
Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy
10/2011 – 08/2018 Assistant Professor
Radboud University
Institute for Molecules and Materials
Education
09/2009 – 08/2011 Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Research Advisor: Prof. George Whitesides
09/2005 – 08/2009 PhD in Organic Chemistry
University of Oxford
Chemistry Research Laboratory
Research Advisor: Prof. Christopher Schofield, FRS
10/2000 – 06/2005 BSc in Chemistry (highest distinction 10.00/10.00)
University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology
