Institute Organisation
The Departments
Our institute consists of three scientific departments, eleven scientific research groups, and an administrative department. The three directors of the three scientific departments take turns managing the institute on an annual basis.
Prof. Dr. Ana J. García-Sáez, Director
- PhD at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Valencia, Spain, 2000 – 2005
- Post-doc at the BioTec, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany, 2005 – 2009
- Max Planck Research Group Leader and Deutsches Krebsforschungzentrum (DKFZ) Junior Group Leader. Bioquant, Heidelberg, Germany, 2010 – 2014
- Professor (W3) at the Interfaculty Institute for Biochemistry (IFIB), Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, 2013 – 2019
- Professor (W3) at the Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany, since October 2019
- Director, MPI of Biophysics, Department of Membrane Dynamics, since October 2023
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Dr. Martin Beck, 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. Gerhard Hummer, Managing 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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