Ulf-Ingo Flügge

Ulf-Ingo Flügge (born April 1, 1948 in Aachen ) is a German biochemist and botanist (plant physiology).

Life

Flügge first studied biochemistry at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1968 he was reciprocated in the Corps Rhenania Tübingen . As an inactive he moved to the University of Cologne . He graduated in 1974. With a thesis on Hans-Walter Heldt , he was in 1978 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich on group translocation into chloroplasts to Dr. rer. nat. PhD. He followed Heldt to the Institute for Plant Biochemistry in Göttingen. In 1985 he completed his habilitation in biochemistry. He became professor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg (1988) and the University of Cologne (1992). His main areas of research are transport processes in plants and the translocators. From 1997 to 2002 he was chairman of the Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology Section of the German Botanical Society (DBG). From 2002 to 2011 he was President of the DBG.

Honors

• Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize (1981)
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (1996)
• Honorary member of the German Botanical Society
• Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
• Elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

See also

• List of Corps students in the Leopoldina

Web links

• Honorary members of the German Botanical Society, with biography
• Flügge at Botanik, Cologne
• WorldCat

References and comments

1. ^ Membership directory Göttingen Academy
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 133/1326
3. ↑ Dissertation: Proteins in the cell membrane that manage the specific transport of substances .
4. ↑ Member entry of Ulf-Ingo Flügge at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 17, 2015.