Ernst Bamberg

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Ernst Bamberg (born November 9, 1940 in Krefeld ) is a German biophysicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt .

Career

Bamberg received the Ph.D. in 1971 for a thesis on ion transport on artificial lipid membranes. in physical chemistry at the University of Basel . He then went to the University of Konstanz , where he in 1977 with a thesis on ion permeability and the kinetics of peptide ion channels habilitated . In 1979 he took part in the Heisenberg program and later became group leader of an independent research group. In 1983 he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt and in 1988 became professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Since 1993 he has been Professor of Biophysical Chemistry and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt.

Bamberg was traded in September 2019 by the media group Clarivate as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Physiology , which was awarded in October 2019 .

research

Bamberg's research focus is on channelrhodopsins . With the discovery of these special light-dependent channels in cell membranes , it is possible to intervene in the transmission of information between nerve cells . The research area of optogenetics based on this could one day lead to the fact that vision can be achieved again in certain blindnesses. In addition, the neurosciences have created a multitude of new investigation possibilities, since nerve cells in cell culture and in the brain of animals living in the brain can be reversibly switched on and off with light with high time and spatial resolution.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vita of Ernst Bamberg on the website of the Max Planck Society
  2. ↑ Clarivate Analytics website from September 24, 2019
  3. ↑ From Biophysics to Neurobiology - Ernst Bamberg receives the Science Prize of the Stifterverband 2009. In: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft. Retrieved June 19, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Ninth Annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences Awarded to Dr. Peter Hegemann, Dr. Georg Nagel, and Dr. Ernst Bamberg at wiley.com; Retrieved April 26, 2011
  5. ^ Winner of the Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation (beckurts-stiftung.de); Retrieved February 3, 2016.
  6. ↑ Member entry by Ernst Bamberg (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 29, 2016.
  7. ^ Ernst Bamberg at the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation (thebrainprize.org); Retrieved March 12, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Bamberg, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld