The Faculty of Computing and Telecommunications of the Poznan University of Technology and the City of Poznan have the pleasure to invite academic community to an open lecture entitled „Chemistry and RNA Evolution”, which will be presented by prof. Eric Westhof from the University of Strasbourg in France. The lecture will be held on October 7, at 11:30 in room 8 at the Lecture Center of the Poznan University of Technology.

Guest profile: Prof. Eric Westhof was born in Belgium and has been working at the University of Strasbourg in France since 1981. In 1988 he became a professor in the field of Structural Biochemistry. Since 2009, he has been the Vice-President (the equivalent of the Vice-Rector) for research and doctoral studies at the University of Strasbourg. Prof. Eric Westhof is a world-renowned authority on the structural biology of nucleic acids. He is the initiator and founder of the international RNA-Puzzles initiative, which brings together scientists involved in computational modelling and quality assessment of RNA spatial structures.

He published 420 papers in many prestigious scientific journals (e.g. Nature, Cell, Nucleic Acids Research, RNA Journal), which received over 28,000 citations, h-index: 91 (as of July 23, 2021, according to SCOPUS). Prof. Westhof is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, head of Education and Training (DEF) and a member of the Board of Directors of the "La Main à la pâte" Foundation.