studied Chemistry (1999-2004) at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria. She joined the group of Klaus Mullen at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, where she achieved her PhD in 2008 for her work on Water Soluble Perylene dyes for Biological Applications. From 2008 to 2010 she worked on Nucleotide and Protein Recognition Systems at Ciba GmbH in Basel, Switzerland. Since 2010, she rejoined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research working on biohybrid systems and their applications in medicine. Her research interests include the design of branched peptides for gene delivery, site-selective modification and labeling of proteins, targeted drug delivery via antibody conjugates as well as structure elucidation of drug-peptide conjugates.

Positions/Openings:

2012/03/05 The Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, offers a Ph.D. position.
Our group is still expanding, we are looking for excellent PhD and Postdoctoral candidates in the field of organic synthesis, peptide synthesis and medical chemistry. Applications are encouraged to be addressed to: peneva@mpip-mainz.mpg.de.