Dr. Konrad Meister joined Boise State University in 2022 and is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.  He holds a Doctorate in Physical Chemistry, a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, all from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.  From 2014-2018 Dr. Meister did his postdoctoral at the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics AMOLF in the Netherlands as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow. Since 2018 he has been a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany. Dr. Meister also worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska Southeast and participated in several Antarctic expeditions. His main research goals are to obtain an understanding of the molecular strategies of cold-adapted organisms and extremeophiles and how we can use nature's tricks in applications.