Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hartmut Michel

Scientific member (Director)

Curriculum Vitae

  • Studies of biochemistry at Tuebingen and Munich, 1969–1975
  • Ph. D., Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, 1977
  • Postdoc, University of Wuerzburg, 1977-1979
  • Research associate and group leader,
 Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, 1979-1987
  • Habilitation, University of Munich, 1986
  • Director, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics,
department of molecular membrane biology, 
since 1987
  • Adjunct Professor, University of Frankfurt, 
since 1989


Prizes, Awards, Academic Memberships (Selections):

  • 1986 Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • 1988 Otto-Bayer-Prize (with Johann Deisenhofer)
  • 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with Johann Deisenhofer and Robert Huber)
  • 2008  Keilin Medal of the British Biochemical Society
  • Honorary doctorates of the Universities of Bologna, Wuerzburg and Heraklion
  • Honorary and visiting professorships of the Imperial College (London), IIT Madras at Chennai, IIT Mumbai, Tongji University Shanghai, Jiaotong University Xian, Tsinghua University Beijing, Sichuan University Chengdu, Tianjin University, Jilin University Changchun, Escuela Superior Polytecnica del Litoral Guayaquil
  • Member or foreign member of the following academies: Leopoldina, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschapen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), Royal Society London

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