Stephan Nussberger

Stephan Nußberger (* 1962 in Munich ) is a German biophysicist and professor at the University of Stuttgart .

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Nußberger studied physics at the Technical University of Munich , where he obtained his diploma in 1987. He then worked in sleep research at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. From 1989 he was a doctoral candidate at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg. There he received his PhD in 1993 with a thesis on high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy supervised by Werner Kühlbrandt . rer. nat. PhD. As a result, Nußberger worked as a postdoc in Matthias Hediger's research group at Harvard Medical School . There he researched among other things the structure-function relationships of ion-coupled transport proteins in mammals and humans. Among other things, an iron and a peptide transporter were identified . In 1995 he returned to Germany and worked at Walter Neupert's institute at the University of Munich , where he was group leader from 1997. In April 2003, Nussberger took up the full professorship for biophysics at the University of Stuttgart , which he has held since then.

Nussberger's research focuses on the biochemistry of membrane proteins and membrane protein complexes and their biophysical and structural characterization. He is married to the legal scholar Angelika Nußberger , with whom he has two children.

Web links

• Stephan Nußberger at the University of Stuttgart
• Stephan Nussberger in the Stuttgart unikurier No. 92 , December 2003