Born: November 25, 1956, Leipzig, Germany

Citizenship: USA

Education:

1977 Vordiplom in Physics and Mathematics, University of Hamburg

1980 Diplom in Physics, University of Hamburg

1982 Ph.D. in Biophysics, Tech University of Munich, Germany

1980 Graduate Student, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, with Klaus Schulten

1980-1982 Graduate Student, Tech University of Munich, with Klaus Schulten

1982-1983 Postdoc. Fellow, Chemistry Department, Harvard University, with Martin Karplus

1984 Postdoc. Fellow, MPI for Biochemistry, with Dieter Oesterhelt and Robert Huber

1985-1987 Research Association, Chemistry Department, Harvard University, with Martin Karplus

Positions:

1987-1991 Assistant Professor, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University

1987-1992 Assistant Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

1991-1993 Associate Professor, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University

1992-1995 Associate Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

1993-2000 Professor, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University

1995-present Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

2000-present Professor, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University

2013-2017 Chair, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University

Honors:

1975 National Mathematics Competition Prize, Germany

1976-1982 Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes Fellowship

1982-1983 NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship

1995 Röntgen Prize in Biosciences, University of Würzburg, Germany

2003 Gregori Aminoff Prize, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

2004 Nobel Symposium Speaker, Stockholm, Sweden

2005 Elected Member, National Academy of Science

2011-2021 Merit Award, NIMH

2011 DeLano Award, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

2014 Carl Hermann Medal of the German Crystallographic Society (DGK)

2012 HHMI Collaborative Innovation Award

2014 Bernard Katz Award, Exocytosis & Endocytosis Group, Biophysical Society

2016 Trueblood Award, American Crystallographic Association

Keynote and named lectures:

2009 Paul Sigler Lecture, Yale University

2013 Sir John Kendrew Lecture, Weizmann Institute

2014 Lecture and Honorary Professor, Xi'an Yiaotong University, Xi'an

2014 Bruker Lecture, IYCr2014 Innsbruck Symposium, Innsbruck

2016 Francis O Schmitt Lecture, MIT Department of Biology

2018 BSA Distinguished Lecture, Brookhaven National Laboratory

2018 Keynote lecture and Honorary Professor, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou

2018 Balzan Lecture, Göttingen, Germany

2018 Robert Whitney Newcomb Memorial Lecture, NIH

Editorial positions:

2009-2015 Member of the Editorial Board for Biophysical Journal

2011-present Associate Editor for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, USA

2012-present Member of the Board of Reviewing Editors for eLife

Major Research Interests:

Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmission and membrane fusion

Computational methods for structural biology

Sources from the Brunger Lab: https://atbweb.stanford.edu/cv/