Research Group Leaders

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Education:   Study of Chemistry at the University of Munich
                    Master's Degree in chemistry                                                      1975

                    PhD at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry
                    in Martinsried/Munich with Feodor Lynen                                      1975 - 1978

Career:        Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (time-limited position for research)
                    at the Max-Planck-Institute                                                         1976 - 1978

                    Akademischer Rat at the University of Regensburg                        1978 - 1984

                    Member of SFB 43 (Collaborative Research Program), Regensburg 1981 - 1988
                    "Biochemistry of membranes and cell surfaces".

                    Habilitation for Biochemistry, venia legendi                                  1984

                     Akademischer Oberrat at the University of Regensburg                1984 - 1986

                     Research award by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft           1986 - 1988
                     (Dept. of Biochemistry, Stanford University, CA., USA)

                     Full professor and director of the Institute for Biochemistry I  
                     at the University of Heidelberg                                                   1988 - 1997

                     Chairman of SFB 352 (collaborative research program)                1991 - 2003
                     Heidelberg: "Molecular mechanisms of intracellular
                     transport processes"

                     Dean of the faculty “Naturwissenschaftliche Medizin”                   1991 - 1992

                     Member for Biochemistry of the search committee
                     “Preclinical Medicine” at the Charité, Humboldt University Berlin   1991 - 1992

                     President elect of the German Society for Biochemistry and
                     Molecular Biology (GBM)                                                           2003 - 2005

                     President GBM   2005 - 2007

                     Founding Director of the Heidelberg Biochemistry-Centre (BZH)   1997 - 2003

                     Managing Editor FEBS Letters   2001 - present

                     Chairman of SFB 638 (collaborative research program)               2003 - present
                     Heidelberg: ”Dynamics of macromolecular complexes
                     in biosynthetic transport”

Awards:        Research award from the German Research Council                   1986 - 1988

                     Honorary member of the Charité, Humboldt University Berlin      1993

                     Elected member of EMBO                                                         2000

                     Heinrich Wieland Prize                                                             2001

                     Elected Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher     2003
                     Leopoldina (German National Academy of Sciences)

                     Feldberg Foundation Prize                                                        2006

                     Elected Member of the Academia Europea                                  2011