Jürgen Soll
Jürgen Soll (born November 7, 1953 ) is a German biochemist and cell biologist. Together with Nikolaus Pfanner , he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2004 .
Career
Soll studied biochemistry at the University of Hanover after graduating from high school and graduated in 1978 with a diploma. Until the end of 1981 he was a research assistant at the Botanical Institute of the Veterinary University in Hanover, interrupted by several stays abroad for study and research purposes. At the same time, he received his doctorate in early 1981. rer. nat.
In 1982, Soll moved to Berkeley University, California, for 16 months, and in 1983 returned to the Botanical Institute of the University of Munich as an academic advisor, repeatedly interrupted by research stays abroad. In 1986 he completed his habilitation in Munich in botany and stayed in Munich until the end of 1988.
In the winter semester 1989/1990 he was appointed to his first professorship for plant physiology at the University of Saarbrücken, after having been able to devote himself to his research the months before thanks to a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation. Again in the winter semester 1991/1992 he moved to Kiel to the chair for developmental physiology. Since the winter semester 2001 Jürgen Soll has been teaching as professor for biochemistry and physiology of plants at the University of Munich. He is one of the leading scientists in the field of chloroplasts . Soll has been a member of the Leopoldina since 2004 .
Jürgen Soll is married and has two children.
Web links
- Homepage of Soll at the Biozentrum of the LMU Munich
- DFG entry on Jürgen Soll ( Memento from March 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry of Jürgen Soll (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 22, 2016.
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| SURNAME | Should, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German biochemist and cell biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1953 |