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Prof. Zeymer conducts research in the field of artificial metalloenzymes, focusing on catalysts that combine the reactivity of metal complexes with the selectivity of proteins. Her work involves the rational design and optimization of specific chemical reactions and laboratory evolution. Prof. Zeymer’s research group utilizes natural proteins and de novo protein scaffolds, which are designed computationally, as starting points to develop novel catalysts. A key objective of the lab includes the analysis of molecular structure and mechanisms associated with the application of artificial metalloenzymes in biocatalysis. She studied Chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden and at the University of California, Berkeley. Following her PhD studies in Biochemistry/Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, she joined ETH Zurich as a postdoctoral fellow, where she led an independent junior research group starting in 2015. In 2020, she was appointed as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Protein Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich.