Jörg Hacker

Jörg Hinrich Hacker

Jörg Hinrich Hacker (born February 13, 1952 in Grevesmühlen ) is a German biologist . 2008–2010 he was President of the Robert Koch Institute . Until the end of February 2020 he was President of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Life

Hacker studied biology at the Martin Luther University in Halle from 1970 to 1974 and received his doctorate A in 1979 . 1980–1988 he was a research assistant at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , where he qualified as a professor in 1986 in microbiology . From 1988–1993 he was Professor of Microbiology at the University of Würzburg. In 1993 he switched to the chair for molecular infection biology. He was the director of the Würzburg Institute until 2008. From 2003 to 2009 he was Vice President of the German Research Foundation . From March 2008 to March 2010, he was Reinhard Kurth's successor as President of the Robert Koch Institute . On October 1, 2009, Hacker was elected President of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences in Halle (Saale) . The official handover took place on February 26, 2010, so that he took office on March 1, 2010. In 2014 he was re-elected for five years (2015–2020).

In 2013, Hacker was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

He is also chairman of the foundation board of the Arthur Burkhardt Foundation for the Promotion of Science.

Act

His main areas of work are the molecular biological analysis of bacterial pathogens (including islands of pathogenicity ), investigations into their spread and variability, and interactions with host cells. From 2001 to 2008 he was co-coordinator of the BMBF program PathoGenoMik and PathoGenoMik Plus. From 2005 to 2010 he coordinated the EU program EuroPathoGenomics (6th Framework Program of the EU, “Network of Excellence”). From 2006 to 2010 Jörg Hacker was a member and deputy spokesman of the Transregio Collaborative Research Center 34 “Pathophysiology in Staphylococci”, Universities of Greifswald , Tübingen and Würzburg . From 2007 to 2010 he was the spokesman for the “E. coli ”in the ERA-NET PathoGenoMics network (European cooperation and coordination of genome sequencing and functional genomics of human pathogenic microorganisms).

Awarded Memberships

Hacker is a member of the following organizations:

• Corresponding member of the Collegium Europaeum Jenense (1991)
• Honorary member of the Hungarian Society for Microbiology (1995)
• German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1998)
• Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (2003)
• European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) (2003)
• American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) of the American Society for Microbiology (2004)
• Bavarian Academy of Sciences (2006)
• Honorary member of the Hungarian Scientific Academy (2007)
• Honorary member of the Kitasato Institute, Tokyo, Japan (2010)
• German Academy of Science and Engineering - acatech (2010)
• Indian National Science Academy (2010)
• Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2010)
• Academia Europaea (2010)
• External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (2011)
• Member of the ethics committee for a secure energy supply of the German federal government (2011)
• Member of the "Scientific Advisory Board" of the United Nations (2013)

Honors

• 1985: Sponsorship award from the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology
• 1988: Academy Award from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences
• 1992: University Medal from the University of Helsinki
• 1994: Prize of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM)
• 2001: Carus Medal from the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• 2002: Carus Prize of the City of Schweinfurt
• 2002: Honorary doctorate from Umeå University , Sweden
• 2004: Honorary doctorate from the University of Pécs , Hungary
• 2005: Fellow “Sackler Institute for Advanced Studies”, Tel Aviv , Israel
• 2006: Lwoff Award from the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS)
• 2008: Gay Lussac Humboldt Science Prize
• 2008: Prize of the Arthur Burkhardt Foundation for promoting science
• 2009: Honorary Senator of the University of Würzburg
• 2009: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2010: Honorary professorship at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
• 2012: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
• 2012: Honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University
• 2014: Honorary citizenship of the city of Grevesmühlen

Web links

Commons : Jörg Hacker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Jörg Hacker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Curriculum Vitae (PDF file; 180 kB)
• Interview "bacteria forget nothing"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Doctoral thesis: Genetic studies on the virulence of Salmonella typhimurium with the help of F-prime plasmids .
2. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Virulence factors of extraintestinal Escherichia coli strains, epidemiology, genetics and medical significance .
3. ↑ Jörg Hacker is the new President of the Robert Koch Institute , press release, in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from February 29, 2008, accessed on June 6, 2010
4. ↑ Jörg Hacker takes over the presidency of the Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences says goodbye Volker ter Meulen , press release, in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft of February 26, 2010, accessed on June 6, 2010
5. ^ Jörg Hacker re-elected as President of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Press release from September 19, 2014 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de).
6. ↑ Deutsches Ärzteblatt, Jörg Hacker - German representative in the new UN Advisory Board , November 15, 2013, p. 2215
7. ^ Website of the Arthur Burkhardt Foundation , accessed on February 11, 2016
8. ↑ Award of the honorary professorship to Prof. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Jörg Hacker , press release, in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from March 24, 2010, accessed on March 30, 2010
9. ↑ Press release of the Bavarian state government about the award, accessed December 8, 2012 ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ^ Honorary Degrees