Lorenzo Caputi

Dr. Lorenzo Caputi serves as Project Group Leader in the Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany. His research focuses on elucidating metabolic pathways involved in natural product formation within ecological contexts.

His primary research areas include Natural Products Chemistry, Biosynthesis, and Metabolic Engineering, with particular emphasis on plant-derived bioactive compounds. The Natural Product Pathways project group investigates enzymatic mechanisms and evolutionary aspects of specialized metabolism in ecologically relevant organisms.

Dr. Caputi maintains active research operations at the institute's Hans-Knöll-Straße facility, with contact accessible through institutional channels.