Brigitte Jockusch

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Brigitte M. Jockusch , b. Schenk (born September 27, 1939 in Berlin ) is a professor emeritus of zoology .

Life

Jockusch studied biology , chemistry and geography at the LMU Munich and the University of Tübingen . She completed her studies in 1964 with the state examination of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture and received her doctorate in zoology, biochemistry and genetics at the LMU in 1967. After spending a year at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Biology (MPI) in Tübingen, she worked for two years at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin in Madison , Wisconsin. She then returned to Tübingen, where she assumed a position as head of a working group at the MPI for Biology and received her habilitation from the University of Tübingen in 1972. In 1974 she moved to the Biozentrum of the University of Basel , Switzerland, and from there in 1978 to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg. In 1982 she moved to Bielefeld University , where she was a C3 professor for cell biology . In 1993 she was appointed as a full professor and head of the Zoological Institute at the Technical University of Braunschweig . Until 2004 she headed the zoological institute of the TU Braunschweig and the international graduate college of Lower Saxony.

From 1991 to 1999, Jockusch was a member of the “Minerva Committee for German-Israeli Cooperation” of the Max Planck Society and from 2002 to 2012 on the Board of Trustees of the Volkswagen Foundation . From 1996 to 2004 she was also a member of the Science Council. Her research interests also include the development and diagnosis of breast cancer . In November 2005 she received the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit for her research in the field of cell biology .

She is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the German National Academy Leopoldina and since 2011 she has been a member of the " Ombudsman for Science " appointed by the DFG .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Brigitte Jockusch (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 7, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Jockusch, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schenk, Brigitte M .; Jockusch, Brigitte M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin