Institute Organisation
The Departments
Prof. Dr. Werner Kühlbrandt
- 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)
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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
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Dr. Martin Beck, Managing Director
- 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
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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hartmut Michel, Director
- Studies in Biochemistry in Tuebingen and Munich, Germany, 1969-1975
- PhD, 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
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