Board of Directors

• Diploma (Chemistry), Free University Berlin, Germany 1977
• PhD (Molecular Biology), MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1981
• Group Leader and Senior Scientist, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, (1987-1997)
• Director, Department of Structural Biology, MPI of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main (since 1997)
• Apl. Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt (since 1999)
• Member of EMBO (1992) and German National Academy of Science, Leopoldina (2003)

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Hummer, Director

• Dr. rer. nat., Physics, University of Vienna, Austria, and Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany, 1992
• Postdoc, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, 1993-1996
• Group leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, 1996-1999
• Group leader, National Institutes of Health, USA, 1999-2013
• Director, Department of Theoretical Biophysics, since 2013

• Studies in Biochemistry in Halle (Germany) and New York (USA), 1995-2002
• Dr. rer. nat., Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany, 2006
• Postdoc, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2006-2009
• Group leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany, 2009-2020
• Director, Department of Molecular Sociology, since 2020

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hartmut Michel, Director

• Studies in Biochemistry in Tuebingen and Munich, Germany, 1969-1975
• Ph D., Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Germany, 1977
• Postdoc, University of Wuerzburg, 1977-1979
• Research associate and group leader,
  Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany, 1979-1987
• Habilitation, University of Munich, Germany, 1986
• Director, Department of Molecular Membrane Biology,
  Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, since 1987
• Adjunct Professor, Goethe University of Frankfurt,
  since 1989