The Wiesenfeldt Lab is a newly established research group at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung. We develop synthetic organic methods via radical intermediates with a focus on transformations that address synthetic problems in medicinal chemistry. We are particularly interested in providing selective access to radicals via excitation of electron-donor-acceptor (EDA) complexes and have used these species for the development of mild organophotocatalytic reduction reactions. Physical organic chemistry plays a major role in our research regarding the formation and decomposition pathways of excitet state intermediates, and solvent effects on their rate constants. As such, students in the Wiesenfeldt Lab will work on cutting-edge transformations with a focus on radical chemistry and photocatalysis, and be exposed to a diverse set of topics ranging from physical organic chemistry to medicinal chemistry.