Corinna Schindler was born and raised in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany. As an undergraduate at the Technical University of Munich, she worked in the area of organometallic chemistry. Upon completion of her Diploma Thesis at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla in the laboratory of K.C. Nicolaou, she joined the research group of Erick M. Carreira at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland for her graduate studies. During her time in the Carreira group Corinna worked on developing novel synthetic methodologies as well as successful synthetic strategies to access Banyaside A and Microcin SF608. For her postdoctoral studies, Corinna joined the laboratory of Eric N. Jacobsen at Harvard University as a Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellow to work in the field of asymmetric catalysis. In 2013, she started her independent career at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research laboratory is interested in the development of new synthetic transformations and the synthesis of biologically important complex molecules. Among her group’s recent achievements are the first report for catalytic strategy for carbonyl-olefin ring-closing metathesis and new strategies for visible light-mediated aza Paternò-Büchi reactions to access functionalized azetidines.