Univ.Prof. Dr. Ronald MICURA
Department of Organic Chemistry
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 80-82
6020 Innsbruck
Austria/Europe
phone: +43 512 507 57710
fax: +43 512 507 57799
Awards, Honors
since 2011
Member of the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW)
2008-2011
Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW)
2005
Ignaz L. Lieben Award 2005
2003
Novartis-Award 2003
06/1998-11/2000
APART-fellowship ('Austrian Programme for Advanced Research and Technology' of the Austrian Academy of Science)
1996
GÖCH Award 1996 (Austrian Chemical Society) for the Ph.D. thesis
Curriculum Vitae
Ronald Micura studied Chemistry at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. He received his PhD working in the field of phycobilin pigments under the supervision of Karl Grubmayr in 1995. Thereafter he joined the laboratory of Albert Eschenmoser at ETH Zurich (1996-1997), and later, at The Scripps Research Institute (1998), to perform postdoctoral research on alternative nucleic acids. Following his time in California, he started independent research funded by an APART-fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Science at the University of Linz. In 2004, he became Professor for Organic Chemistry at the Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck, Austria. His research focuses on the chemistry, chemical biology, and biophysics of RNA.