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Curriculum Vitae
Managing Director
Department of Molecular Ecology
MPI for Marine Microbiology
Celsiusstr. 1
D-28359 Bremen
Germany
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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