Rolf Schmid (chemist)

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Rolf Dieter Schmid (born January 5, 1942 in Salzburg ) is a German chemist . From 1993 to 2009 he was Professor of Technical Biochemistry at the University of Stuttgart and Director of the institute of the same name at the Center for Bioprocess Engineering. He is a specialist in biotechnology developments in Japan and China.

Life

Schmid studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and chemistry, biochemistry and microbiology at the University of Freiburg , where he received his doctorate in 1970. After postdoctoral stays at the CNRS in Gif-sur-Yvette and at the University of Texas in Austin, he accepted a position at Henkel & Cie in Düsseldorf in 1972 in the field of environmental research and has been building up the company's biotechnological research since 1975. From 1987 to 1993 he worked as head of enzyme technology and natural product chemistry (successor to Maria-Regina Kula ) at the Society for Biotechnological Research (now Helmholtz Center for Infection Research ) combined with a professorship at the Technical University of Braunschweig . In 1993 he accepted the professorship of Technical Biochemistry at the University of Stuttgart. Until 2009 he was the director of the Institute for Technical Biochemistry at this university. In 2007 he received an MBA from Reutlingen University , founded Bio4Business in Stuttgart in 2010 and the Steinbeis Asia Technology Consulting center in 2015.

Industry, association and governmental activities

From 1990 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2011 Schmid was a member of the supervisory board of Eppendorf AG and from 2000 the spokesman for its scientific advisory board. From 2008 to 2010 he was chairman of the Dr. Heinrich Netheler Foundation and in 2009 was also appointed by the Baden-Württemberg state government to commission the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Art for cooperation in the field of biotechnology with the partner provinces of Shanghai and Jiangsu ( China ) and the Kanagawa prefecture ( Japan ) appointed. In addition to his governmental and economic activities, Schmid also got involved in numerous associations. From 1997 to 2002 he was head of the biotechnology section of the IUPAC and at the same time head of the specialist committee for fundamentals of biotechnology at DECHEMA . He is a member of the advisory board of the cluster for industrial biotechnology CLIB2021 in Düsseldorf, the Japan cluster InnoMunich of BioM and spokesman for the scientific advisory board of Toulouse White Biotech.

Awards

Works

Patents and magazine articles

He and his staff have published more than 380 original scientific papers and over 100 patent applications and patents in the field of industrial biotechnology and biosensors .

Books

General

  • Schmid, Pocket Atlas of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering , Wiley-VCH , Weinheim, 2002, ISBN 3527313109 (published in German, English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and Arabic). 3rd edition 2016
  • Schmid, Urlacher, Modern Biooxidation: Enzymes, Reactions and Applications , Wiley-VCH , Weinheim, 2007, ISBN 3527315071

Biotechnology in Japan

On behalf of Henkel KGaA, Schmid played a key role in setting up a research group in Japan and analyzed developments in Japan for the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology (today: Federal Ministry of Education and Research ) from 1980 to 1995 . In addition to numerous publications, the following books were created:

In 1991 he did a research stay at the University of Tokyo .
Since 2011 he has published extensive information on Japanese biotechnology on the Window-to-Japan website .

Biotechnology in China

Schmid has been analyzing developments in the field of biotechnology in China on behalf of the BMBF since 1990 . In addition to numerous publications, the following book was created:

  • Schmid, Lian Ma, Chinese Bio Today , Shanghai: Printing Center of the General Office of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee, 2003.

In 2003 he did a research stay at Tsinghua University in Beijing and in 2009 he did a research stay at Nanjing Tech University. Since 2012 he has published comprehensive information on biotechnology in China on the Window-to-China website. He has been a scientific advisor to the Chinese port city of Tsingtao since 2015 and publishes the Window-to-Qingdao website. In the chemical news, he writes the column Look to China.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article in BIO PRO, 2006: Research must also be practically applicable ( Memento from July 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Article in BIO PRO, 2010: Dynamics and potential of the Baden-Württemberg partner regions in Japan and China ( Memento from July 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Schmid u. a .: Anatomy of lipase binding sites: The scissile fatty acid binding site. In: Chemistry and Physics of Lipids. Volume 93, number 1-2, 1998, pp. 67-80, doi: 10.1016 / S0009-3084 (98) 00030-9
  4. ^ Rolf D. Schmid, Robert Verger: Lipases: Interfacial enzymes with attractive applications In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. Volume 37, Number 12, 1998, pp. 1609-1633
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Rolf Dieter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist and biotechnologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg , Austria