Sandra Loesgen graduated summa cum laude with a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry and Pharmacology from Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany, in 2007. She was DFG supported postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Bill Fenical’s Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD and her postdoctoral research continued in the lab of Dr. Carole Bewley at the National Institute of Health. From 2013-2019, she was Assistant Professor at Oregon State University. Since September 2019, she is Associate Professor of Chemistry at the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, and part of the Chemistry Department at UF