2008 is great! We are very happy that Dirk Trauner will join CIPSM and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the LMU in August 08 as a newly established CIPSM full professor. Dirk's research centers on the total synthesis of complex natural products and rationally designed molecular probes and their application to biological problems, especially in neuroscience. We are looking forward to fruitful collaborations and amazing science. Dirk will rock the Munich scene. Watch out! From left to right: Herbert Mayr (Head of the Department), Dirk Trauner and Thomas Carell (Speaker of CIPSM).