Cur­riculum Vitae

Managing Director

Department of Molecular Ecology

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Amann

MPI for Marine Microbiology
Celsiusstr. 1
D-28359 Bremen
Germany

Room: 

2221

Phone: 

+49 421 2028-9300

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Amann

Education

1995 Ha­bil­it­a­tion, Tech­nical Uni­versity of Mu­nich, Ger­many
1988-1989 Postdoc at the Dept. of Veter­in­ary Patho­bi­o­logy at the Uni­versity of Illinois in Urb­ana-Cham­paign, USA (with D.A. Stahl)
1988 Dr. rer. nat., Tech­nical Uni­versity of Mu­nich, Ger­many (with K.H. Schleifer)
1986 De­grees in Bio­logy and Chem­istry, Tech­nical Uni­versity of Mu­nich, Ger­many

Professional degrees

since 2001 Pro­fessor of Mi­cro­bial Eco­logy, Uni­versity of Bre­men, Ger­many
1997-2001 Head of a Max Planck Re­search Group, Max Planck In­sti­tute for Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, Bre­men, Ger­many
1990-1996 As­sist­ant (Pro­fessor) of Mi­cro­bi­o­logy at the Tech­nical Uni­versity of Mu­nich, Ger­many

Positions held

2025-2028 Man­aging Dir­ector of the Max Planck In­sti­tute for Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, Bre­men, Ger­many
2019-2021 Man­aging Dir­ector of the Max Planck In­sti­tute for Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, Bre­men, Ger­many
2014-2017 Chair­per­son of the Bio­logy/​Medi­cine Sec­tion of the Max Planck So­ci­ety
2012-2014 Chair­per­son of the Per­spect­ives Com­mit­tee Bio­logy/​Medi­cine of the Max Planck So­ci­ety
2007-2010 Man­aging Dir­ector of the Max Planck In­sti­tute for Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, Bre­men, Ger­many
2002-2018 Speaker of the In­ter­na­tional Max Planck Re­search School MarMic, Max Planck In­sti­tute for Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, Bre­men
since 2001 Dir­ector at the Max Planck In­sti­tute for Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, Bre­men, Ger­many, Head of the De­part­ment of Mo­lecu­lar Eco­logy

Fellowships and awards

2010 Elec­ted mem­ber of the European Academy of Mi­cro­bi­o­logy
2007 Elec­ted mem­ber of the Leo­pold­ina – Na­tional Academy of Sci­ences
2004 Bergey´s Award in Sys­tem­atic Bac­teri­ology
1998 Lec­turer´s Award of the Verb­and der Chemischen In­dus­trie e.V.
1996 Award for Bio­logy, Akademie der Wis­senschaft zu Göt­tin­gen
1995 Ko­er­ber Award for European Sci­ences
1991 Young Sci­ent­ist Award of the Ger­man So­ci­ety for Hy­giene and Mi­cro­bi­o­logy (DGHM)

Publications

ResearcherID: C-6534-2014; ~400 art­icles in peer-re­viewed journ­als; total cita­tions without self-cita­tions in WoS: >70,000, h-in­dex 131

Google Scholar (h-in­dex: 163)

Editorial board

Ed­itor of Sys­tem­atic and Ap­plied Mi­cro­bi­o­logy

Reviewer tasks

  • Ad hoc reviewer for Nature, Science, PNAS, and all major journals in microbial ecology
  • ERC-AdG panel member LS8 (2008-2015); ERC panel chair for ex-post evaluation ERC-LS8 2016 and ERC-LS1-Synergy Grant 2018
  • DFG elected panel member for microbial ecology 2004-2012
  • Ad hoc reviewer for German, Swiss and Austrian Science Foundations, the German Ministry for Science and Technology, NSF (USA), NERC (UK)

Further Community Services

  • Member of the working group an Digital Sequence Information of the Leopoldina – National Academy of Sciences (2020-2021)
  • Chair of Leopoldina working group "Challenges and chances of integrative taxonomy" (2012-2014)
  • Board member of International Society of Microbial Ecology (ISME) (2012-2016)
  • Meeting president of the Annual Meeting of the German Microbiological Society VAAM 2013 in Bremen

Membership

VAAM and DGHM (the two Ger­man mi­cro­bi­o­lo­gical so­ci­et­ies), ASM, ISME

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