Curriculum Vitae
| Nationality: | German | |
| Positions: | 1997 - 2020 | Associate Professor. Structural investigations into porins, PTS transporters, hyaluronidase, antigen-antibody complexes, and response regulators of the c-di-GMP signal cascade. Teaching in Structural Biology (Bio4, Blockkurs, graduate teaching). |
| 1992 – 1997 | Junior group leader and habilitation. Membrane protein crystallography on non-specific porins and maltoporin; structure analysis of components of the bacterial mannose transporter; prediction of membrane protein topology, structure analysis of enzymes. | |
| 1989 – 1992 | Research associate in the Department of Structural Biology of the Biozentrum (Prof. J.N. Jansonius); X-ray structural investigations on various aspartate amino transferase complexes, other pyridoxal phosphate dependent enzymes and on membrane proteins (porins from E.coli). | |
| Education: | 1987 – 1988 | Post-doctoral fellow with Dr. P.R. Evans at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC, Cambridge, England; X-ray analysis of the inactive (T-state) form of the allosteric enzyme phosphofructokinase and elucidation of the regulatory mechanism. |
| 1982 – 1987 | Ph.D. student and post-doctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried with Prof. R. Huber; Ph.D. thesis (1985): “X-ray structure analysis of the light-harvesting phycobiliprotein C-phycocyanin”. | |
| 1978 – 1982 | Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (Diploma in Physics) | |
| 1977 – 1978 | Study of physics, University of Vienna | |
| 1975 – 1977 | Study of physics, University of Konstanz | |
| Selected Awards & Honors: | 1986 | Otto-Hahn-Medaille by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft |
| Selected Memberships: | Since 1988 | Longterm fellowship by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) |