Hey!

I'm Andre Zenz,
welcome to my website.

At the moment, I am part of the Kath-Schorr research group at the University of Cologne and have recently completed my master's thesis about unnatural nucleobases in oligonucleotides. Now, I am starting work towards my PhD with her group. If you want you can look at kathlab.uni-koeln.de to find out more about our work.

Group Retreat 2025
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For this years working group retreat we had a sailing trip to the Markermeer in the Netherlands. It was an incredible two days at sea (or Lake, to be precise), and I'm very grateful for the experience! Huge thanks to Tobi for the nice pictures and to my professor Stephanie to make this possible, as well as all crew members for the good time!

black and white portrait of Andre Zenz aboard a sailing boat

Photocredit © Tobias Behn, 2025

Send me mail:   azenz@me.com   < pgp‑key >

I was born in 1995 on christmas eve in the beautiful city of Cologne in Germany. On a field trip day during my time at school we visited the laboratories at the chemical department of the university here, which eventually inspired me to start studying chemistry in 2014. I really enjoy the combination of theoretical and practical aspects that this field of science encompasses. In 2019, I successfully completed my bachelor's degree, investigating iodine catalysis via halogen-bonding with Prof. Martin Breugst, who is now a Professor at the university of Chemnitz. Thereafter, I continued to study and joined the research group of Prof. Stephanie Kath-Schorr for my masters degree on unnatural nucleobase analogs.
I'm also interested in politics, music and cooking and in the past performed Tae-Kwon-Do and played some piano. Before my path in chemistry started, I wanted to be become a computer programmer, which I guess, resulted now in this website.

A close friend of mine studied film making and I was involved in a short film he produced. You can find out more about his work at nwdh.org, have fun.