Nikolaus Pfanner#
| Membership Number: | 2320 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2005 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.biochemie.uni-freiburg.de/ag/pfanner |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 – 2011 President of German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM)
- since 2008 Council Member of University of Freiburg
- 2002 – 2008 Chairman of Research Board of Medical Faculty Freiburg
- 1996 – 2000 Chairman of Study Section of Biological Chemistry & Biophysics of German Science Foundation (DFG)
- 1995 – 2006 Coordinator of Collaborative Research Center on “Cellular Functions of Dynamic Protein Interactions” (SFB 388)
- since 1992 Professor and Chair, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Freiburg
- 1988 - 1989 Research Fellow, Dept. of Mol. Biology, Princeton University
- 1987 – 1992 Junior Group Leader, Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University of Munich
- 1985 – 1986 Postdoc, Physiological Chemistry, University of Munich (Prof. Walter Neupert)
Fields of Scholarship
- Protein Structure and Function
- Targeting, translocation and folding of mitochondrial proteins
- Biogenesis of Mitochondria: Protein Transport and Assembly
Honours and Awards
- 1985 Summa cum laude, University of Munich
- 1991 Research Award of University of Munich
- 1994 Member of European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
- 1999 Best Lecturer (three times), teaching evaluation of the Medical Faculty Freiburg (Preclinical Lecturers & Study Course Molecular Medicine)
- 2000 Member of German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2002 Max Planck Research Award
- 2004 Member of Academy of Sciences Heidelberg
- 2004 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 2005 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2007 Research Award of German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2008 Research Award of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- 2011 Hector Research Award
- 2014 Stein and Moore Award of the Protein Society, USA
- 2014 Feldberg Prize Lecture
