What is it like to be a professor? An interview with Prof. Uli Hennecke. by NaturalScience.Careers published on 2020-05-04T14:15:51Z Prof. Uli Hennecke is a chemist by training, moving from bioorganic chemistry during his PhD in Munich to synthetic organic chemistry in his postdoc in the UK. He started his own group in Münster, where he could show grit and determination: after eleven years as an untenured group leader, he recently managed to get a professorship at the University of Brussels in Belgium.