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Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University
Updated: 2019-06-28
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
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