Prof. Dr. Serhat Sezai Cicek

Teaching areas 
Analytical chemistry
Pharmacy

Courses:
Instrumental Analysis
Instrumental Bioanalysis
Preparative Chromatography
Spectroscopy
Basics in Pharmacology
Pharmacology
Drug Development & Formulation
Scientific working

Research focus:
Identification, characterisation and quantification of bioactives from natural sources.
Ethnopharmacology with the focus on Amazonian medicinal plants. 
Analysis of drugs and food supplements.

Core competencies:
Analytical natural product chemistry
Chromatography
Spectroscopy

Serhat Sezai Çiçek studied Pharmacy at the University of Innsbruck from 2002 to 2007. From 2007 to 2011 he pursued his doctoral studies in Pharmacognosy and in parallel absolved the Certificate of Advanced Studies in “Ethnobotany and Ethnomedicine” at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. 

He became a registered Pharmacist in 2011 and worked in the Hospital Pharmacy Salzburg from 2011 to 2016, where he was heading the Quality Control department for the last two years. In 2016 he became a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Pharmaceutical Biology at Kiel University, where he founded the Junior Research Group for Analytical Natural Product Chemistry in 2021. In September 2023, he obtained a professorship of Instrumental Bioanalysis at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences.

In addition to his studies, Prof. Çiçek completed training in Quality Assurance in the Chemical Laboratory at the Technical University of Leoben (2012 to 2013) and became Approved Hospital Pharmacist at the Austrian Chamber of Pharmacists in Vienna (2013 to 2015). Since 2016, he has also been a Specialist Pharmacist for Pharmaceutical Analysis and holds the authorization to train Specialist Pharmacists for Pharmaceutical Analysis and Technology.

Functions:
Head of the Chemistry Laboratory Centre
Head of the Bioanalyis Reserach and Transfer Centre
Associate Editor for Phytochemistry Reviews

Comittees:
Member of the research committee of the Life Sciences faculty

Memberships:
Member of the German Chemical Society
Member of the Phytochemical Society of Europe

Doctoral theses:
Moreno Cardenas, Calisto (2026): Natural product chemistry in drug discovery: Structure-dependent activity and phytochemical studies of selected medicinal plants.

Master theses:
Seju, Namita (2026): Quantification of Αlpha-Keto Acids by UHPLC and Charged Aerosol Detection.
Ramadani, Lauri (2025): Correlation of vanadium content to the occurrence of halogenated organic compounds in Rhodophyta species of the Baltic Sea.
Moreno Cardenas, Calisto (2021): Moderne Methoden zur Extraktion und Quantifizierung von Sennosiden.
Ugolini, Tommaso (2018): New NMR method for the quantification of anthraquinone derivatives in laxative drugs.
Willer, Johanna (2017): Phytochemische Untersuchung von Turnera diffusa.
Pfeifer Barbosa, Anna Lais (2017): Untersuchungen zur antikanzerogenen und antimikrobiellen Aktivität des brasilianischen Copaifera Oleoresins.

Bachelor theses:
Ntantos, Patrick (2025): Entwicklung einer UHPLC-CAD-Methode zur Bestimmung von Fettsäuren
Daiu, Iris (2024): Entwicklung einer HPLC-FLD Methode zur Bestimmung von alpha-Ketosäuren.

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