Professional Career Highlights

• Since 07/2026: Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical & Medicinal Chemistry, University of Bonn Structural biology of GPCRs and membrane proteins for drug discovery
• Since 01/2025: Topic Editor, American Chemical Society (ACS) ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science
• 2023 – 2026: Postdoctoral Researcher, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG Global Medicinal Chemistry Department, Structural Research Subject: Cryo-Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) of Membrane Proteins
• 2018 – 2022: Doctoral Researcher & Teaching Assistant, University of Bonn
  Pharmaceutical & Medicinal Chemistry (Group of Prof. Dr. Christa E. Müller)
  Thesis: X-ray Crystallography of G Protein-coupled Receptors: Exploring Interactions with Drug Molecules (summa cum laude)
• 2017 – 2018: Master’s Student, Drug Research (M.Sc.), University of Bonn & Research at iHuman Institute, ShanghaiTech University, China (Group of Prof. Ray Stevens, PhD)
• Since 01/2017: German State License as Pharmacist (Approbation)
  2015 – 2016: Practical Training Year in Pharmacy, Community Pharmacy & Merck KGaA
• 2011 – 2015: Pharmacy Student, University of Bonn

Awards, Scholarships & Memberships

• Since 10/2018: Member of the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG)
• 10/2023: Carl-Wilhelm-Scheele Doctoral Thesis Award (awarded by DPhG)
• 06/2023: Bayer AG Doctoral Thesis Award
• 02/2022: Mentoring Award in Cooperation with Bayer AG (awarded by DPhG)
• 06/2018: Scholarship by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
• 01/2017: PROMOS Scholarship Funded by the BMBF for research stay in China
• 12/2015: Carl-Friedrich-Mohr Award

Selected Publications

• Claff, T. et al.: Nature Communications 2025, 16, 1973.
• Claff, T. et al.: ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science 2024, 7(5), 1415-1425.
• Claff, T. et al.: Communications Chemistry 2023, 6(1), 106.
• Claff, T. et al.: Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 2022, 61(22), e202115545. (Hot Paper, Inside Cover Story)
• Claff, T. et al.: Science Advances 2019, 5(11), eaax9115.

All Publications: Google scholar