Andrea Rentmeister

Andrea Rentmeister (born 28 December 1977) is an Austrian chemist and fencer. She competed in the women's individual épée event at the 2000 Summer Olympics.^[1] After completing her studies of chemical engineering and chemistry at the Universities of Graz and Bonn, earning her a PhD, she became a postdoctoral researcher at the lab of the 2018 Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2007. In 2010 she became a junior professor for Biochemistry at the University of Hamburg. Until 2023, she held a position as professor for biomolecular label chemistry at the University of Münster before becoming a chair holder at LMU University Munich for Organic und Biological Chemistry in 2024.^[2]