Frieder W. Scheller

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Frieder Wolfram Scheller (born  August 17, 1942 in Dresden ) is a German chemist and former professor of analytical biochemistry at the University of Potsdam . His research interests mainly concern the development and application of biosensors and biochips in clinical diagnostics , environmental analysis and process control in biotechnology .

Life

Frieder Scheller was born in Dresden in 1942 and studied chemistry from 1961 to 1965 at the Technical University of Leuna-Merseburg . He graduated with a diploma in physical chemistry and received his doctorate in 1969 at the Humboldt University in Berlin in the field of theoretical electrochemistry . He then worked for a year as a senior assistant at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at Humboldt University, before moving to the Central Institute for Molecular Biology (ZIM) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin-Buch in 1970 . At the ZIM he initially worked as a research assistant, later as a department head and division manager, and finally from 1990 to 1991 as deputy director of the institute.

In 1980 he was in the field of enzymology habilitation , four years later, he was appointed Professor of Biochemistry at the Academy of Sciences. After the conversion of the ZIM into the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine , he switched to a professorship for analytical biochemistry at the Institute for Biochemistry and Biology at the University of Potsdam in 1993 . There he also acted from February 2004 to December 2006 as Vice-Rector and then until his retirement for reasons of age at the end of 2007 as Vice-President for Research and Young Scientists.

From 2001 to 2003 he was also President of the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology . Since his retirement he has been an honorary professor at the University of Potsdam as well as a senior scientist and head of a working group in the Potsdam-Golm branch of the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Technology .

Frieder Scheller is widowed and has three children.

Awards

Frieder Scheller has been a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences since 1994 . In 1969 he received the Johann Gottlieb Fichte Prize from the Humboldt University in Berlin for his dissertation , the GDR National Prize for Science and Technology in 1987 and the Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize in 1994 .

Works (selection)

  • Biosensors. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1989 (licensed edition Birkhäuser, Basel 1989); English edition: Biosensors. Elsevier, Amsterdam 1992
  • Frontiers in Biosensorics. Birkhäuser, Basel 1997

literature

  • Reinhard Renneberg, Dorothea Pfeiffer, Fred Lisdat, George Wilson, Ulla Wollenberger, Frances Ligler, Anthony PF Turner: Frieder Scheller and the short history of biosensors. In: Advances in Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology. Springer-Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-75200-4 , pp. 1-18

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personal data
SURNAME Scheller, Frieder W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheller, Frieder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and biosensor researcher
DATE OF BIRTH August 17, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden