Since October 2020, Professor of Microbial Biochemistry in the Faculty of Chemistry and the Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science at the University of Vienna.

2020 ERC Consolidator Grant

2019 Manfred Fuchs Prize of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

2015–2020 Elected member of “The Young Academy” at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

2014–2020 Research Group Leader in the Department of Chemistry and Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany

2014 Emmy Noether Grant from the DFG

2011–2014 Postdoctoral Research (funded by a Leopoldina Research Fellowship), Laboratory of Jon Clardy, Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

2011–2014 Science Manager and Associate at AVIRU GmbH

2010–2011 Project Leader of the EXIST research transfer project AVIRU, focused on the development of anti-virulence drugs, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)

2010 Co-founder of AVIRU GmbH, Munich, Germany

2010 Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory of Stephan Sieber, Technical University of Munich, Germany

2010 Klaus Tschira Award for achievements in promoting public understanding of science

2010 Award from the Munich University Society

2006–2009 Doctoral thesis (funded by the German Academic Exchange Service), Laboratory of Stephan Sieber, CIPSM & Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, LMU Munich, Germany

2004–2007 Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service

2003–2006: Studies in Chemistry and Biochemistry, LMU Munich, Germany

Born in 1982 in Munich, Germany

M. Jancheva, T. Böttcher (2021) A Metabolite of Pseudomonas Triggers Prophage-Selective Lysogenic-to-Lytic Conversion in Staphylococcus aureus. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 143(22): 8344–8351.

M. Prothiwa, V. Filz, S. Oehler, T. Böttcher (2021) Inhibition of quinolone biosynthesis in Burkholderia. Chem. Sci. 12: 6908–6912.

L. Peñalver, P. Schmid, D. Szamosvári, S. Schildknecht, C. Globisch, K. Sawade, C. Peter, T. Böttcher (2021) A ligand selection strategy identifies chemical probes targeting the proteases of SARS-CoV-2. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60(12): 6799-6806.

A. Pawar, M. Basler, H. Goebel, G. Alvarez Salinas, M. Groettrup, T. Böttcher (2020) Competitive metabolite profiling of natural products reveals subunit-specific inhibitors of the 20S proteasome. ACS Central Science 6 (2): 241–246.

D. Szamosvári, T. Schuhmacher, C. Hauck, T. Böttcher (2019) A thiochromenone antibiotic derived from the Pseudomonas quinolone signal selectively targets the Gram-negative pathogen Moraxella catarrhalis. Chem. Sci. 10: 6624–6628.

M. Prothiwa, F. Englmaier, T. Böttcher (2018) A competitive live-cell profiling strategy for identifying inhibitors of quinolone biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140 (43): 14019–14023.

D. Szamosvári, T. Böttcher (2017) An unsaturated quinolone N-oxide from Pseudomonas aeruginosa modulates the growth and virulence of Staphylococcus aureus. Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 56(25): 7271-7275.

S. Rütschlin, S. Gunesch, T. Böttcher (2017) One Enzyme, Three Metabolites: Shewanella algae controls siderophore production via the cellular substrate pool. Cell Chem. Biol. 24(5): 598-605.