Dietmar Schomburg

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Dietmar Schomburg

Dietmar Schomburg (born April 21, 1950 in Braunschweig ) is a German chemist and bioinformatician . Since the beginning of 2007 he has been professor and director of the newly established department for bioinformatics and biochemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

education and profession

After obtaining a diploma in chemistry (1974) and a subsequent doctorate in structural chemistry (1976) at the Technical University of Braunschweig, a postdoctoral phase at the same university followed from 1976 to 1978. In 1978 and 1979 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University in the group of William N. Lipscomb , Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1976, and in the group of Frank H. Westheimer .

This was followed by a period of postdoctoral research (1979 to 1981) and assistant professor (1981 to 1983) at the TU Braunschweig. Between 1983 and 1986 he worked as head of the X-ray structure laboratory in what was then the Society for Biotechnological Research (GBF, since 2006 Helmholtz Center for Infection Research ) and in 1985 did his habilitation in structural chemistry.

From 1987 to 1996 Dietmar Schomburg headed the “Molecular Structural Research” department at what was then the GBF, before he was Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Cologne from 1996 to 2007 .

In 2007 he accepted a professorship at the TU Braunschweig, where he built up the department for biochemistry and bioinformatics, of which he is the head.

In 1987 he founded the Braunschweig enzyme database BRENDA at the GBF , which is now the world's largest online collection of data on enzymes and metabolic pathways . The database is freely available to academic users on the Internet .

Research work

Bioinformatics and systems biology , biochemistry, structural chemistry, microbiology

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personal data
SURNAME Schomburg, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and bioinformatician
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig