Werner Kühlbrandt

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Werner Kühlbrandt (born December 7, 1951 ) is a German biophysicist . Since 1997 he has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main and "Scientific Member" of the Max Planck Society.

Life

Kühlbrandt studied chemistry at the Free University of Berlin from 1971 to 1977 . From 1974 to 1975 he completed a bachelor's degree in biophysics at King's College London . Kühlbrandt then received his doctorate in molecular biology at the Medical Research Council (LMB) in Cambridge until 1981, between 1981 and 1984 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Cell Biology at ETH Zurich , then until 1987 postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College London . After a year as a "Visiting Scientist" at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley / California, he became group leader at the EMBL in Heidelberg in 1988 . In 1992 he qualified as a professor for biophysics at Heidelberg University. In 1997 he was appointed director at the MPI for Biophysics.

From 1973, his studies were funded by the German National Academic Foundation. From 1986 to 1991 he was a Heisenberg Fellow of the DFG. In 1992 he was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization . He has been a member of the Leopoldina since 2003 .

Research areas

Kühlbrandt primarily researches the structures and mechanisms of membrane proteins and their two- and three-dimensional crystallization. He also works with cryo-electron microscopy and electron tomography on the structure determination of biomolecules and on the image processing of the data obtained. He also uses cryo-electron microscopy to research the molecular basis of mitochondrial aging.

Scientific and academic offices (selection)

Kühlbrandt had and still holds numerous offices in research associations: From 2008 to 2012 he was Principal Investigator of an EU project and the Collaborative Research Center 807. From 2007 to 2012 he was a member of the executive committee of the Macromolecular Complexes Excellence Cluster. Since 2012 he has been a member of the editorial board of the open access journal eLife, and since 1990 he has been a longstanding member of the editorial board of several journals, such as the EMBO Reports and the EMBO Journal. From 2009 he was head of the Scientific Advisory Board of EMBL.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Werner Kühlbrandt (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 2, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Kühlbrandt, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1951