Anne-Kathrin Duhme-Klair obtained her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oldenburg (Germany), with Prof. Siegfried Pohl and Dr. Henry Strasdeit. After postdoctoral positions at King's College London (UK), with Prof. Robert C. Hider, and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg (Germany), she completed her habilitation at the University of Münster (Germany) with Prof. Bernt Krebs. In 1998, she was appointed to a lectureship at the University of York, where she is now a Professor of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, working in the areas of bioinorganic and medicinal inorganic chemistry. The focus of her current research is the coordination chemistry of biomimetic metal complexes and iron-chelating siderophores and their applications, for example in the development of new antimicrobials, the investigation photo-activated catalysis and the development of artificial metalloenzymes.