Aarhus University, Denmark
Kurt Vesterager Gothelf (1968) studied chemistry at Aarhus University, Denmark and at Heidelberg University, Germany. He performed the two first years of his Ph.D.-studies under supervision of Professor K. B. G. Torssell and the last two under Professor K. A. Jørgensen, Aarhus University. Following a period as a post doc. in Professor K. A. Jørgensen's group he joined Professor M. C. Pirrung's group at Duke University. From May 2002 he has been an Associate Professor at Aarhus University and in August 2007 he was appointed Professor (MSO) in organic nanochemistry. In 2007 Kurt Gothelf became director of the Danish National Research Foundation Centre for DNA Nanotechnology