Wolfgang Baumeister#
| Membership Number: | 6936 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.biochem.mpg.de/de/baumeister |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8154-8809 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Distinguished Adjunct Professor ShanghaiTech University
- 2000 - present Honorary Professor of Physics Technical University Munich
- 2000 Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech, Pasadena
- 1988 - present Director and Dept. Head, Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry
- 1987 - present Professor of Chemistry, Technical University
- 1984 - 1987 Professor, Medical Faculty, University of Düsseldorf
- 1983 - 1987 Group Leader, MPI of Biochemistry
- 1981 - 1982 Heisenberg Fellow, Cavendish Lab, University of Cambridge
- 1973 - 1980 Research Associate, Dept. of Biophysics, University of Düsseldorf
Fields of Scholarship
- Cellular architecture in health and disease
- Neurotoxic aggregates
- Molecular machinery of protein degradation
- Autophagy
- Structural molecular and cellular biology
- Cryo-electron tomography
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics, National Academy of Sciences
- 2020 Doctor honoris causa, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
- 2019 van Deenen Medal, University of Utrecht
- 2019 Scientific Prize of the Stifterverband for German Science
- 2018 Ernst Jung Medal for Medicine in Gold, Jung Foundation
- 2017 Doctor honoris causa, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- 2010 Foreign Associate US National Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Bijvoet Medal, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
- 2006 Ernst-Schering-Prize, Schering Foundation, Berlin
- 2005 Harvey-Prize in Science and Technology, Technion Haifa, Israel
- 2005 Schleiden-Medal, German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
- 2004 Stein and Moore Award, Protein Society, USA
- 2003 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2002 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- 2001 Karl-Heinz Beckurts Prize, Beckurts Foundation, Germany
- 2001 Fellow, German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
- 2001 Prize of the Feldberg Foundation
- 1998 Otto-Warburg Medal
- 1988 EMBO Member
- 1982 Ernst-Ruska Prize
