Werner Mäntele

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Werner Günter Mäntele (* 1952 in Alpirsbach ) is a German biophysicist and professor of biophysics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . His main research area is infrared spectroscopy for the investigation of proteins as well as the application in medical analysis. Since 2008 he has been editor of Spectrochimica Acta Part A . He is the author and co-author of numerous publications and holder of patents.

Life

From 1972 Mäntele studied physics at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg, where he graduated in 1978 with a diploma. In 1982 he received his doctorate at the Faculty of Chemistry there, and six years later he completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Biology. As part of a Heisenberg scholarship , his path led him to the University of Pennsylvania in 1993 . He later took on a substitute professorship at the University of Bayreuth , before becoming professor for physical chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1994 . In 1997 he accepted a position at the Goethe University in Frankfurt , where he became a university professor for biophysics .

In addition to his work as editor of Spectrochimica Acta Part A , Mäntele u. a. also reviewer at various scientific journals, at the DFG , at the DAAD as well as for EU and BMBF projects.

Since 2008, the bachelor's and master's degree in biophysics, which Mäntele helped to develop, has existed at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.

Mäntele is married and has three children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for Biophysics. In: www.biophysik.org. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
  2. Search results in PubMed. In: PubMed. Retrieved November 17, 2018 .
  3. DEPATISnet research site of the German Patent and Trademark Office. In: DEPATISnet. Retrieved November 17, 2018 .