Michael Nilges#
| Membership Number: | 4290 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/unites/Binfs |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011,7 - 2011,9 Visiting Professor, UC San Francisco, California
- since 2006 Head of the Department of Structural Biology and Chemistry, Institut Pasteur
- since 2001 Head of the Structural Bioinformatics Unit), Institut Pasteur
- 1992 – 2001 Head of the “Protein Modelling Group”, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, FRG.
- 1989 – 1992 Postdoctoral research associate HHMI, and Dept of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
- 1988 – 1989 NIH visiting fellow Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, NIH
- 1988, 1-1988, 8 Post–doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried.
Fields of Scholarship
- NMR spectroscopy
- Structural biology
- Hybrid methods
- Computational biology
- Structural bioinformatics
Honours and Awards
- 2011 ERC advanced grant
- 2009 Therese Lebrasseur Prize
- 1989 Howard Hughes post-doctoral fellowship
- 1988 NIH visiting fellowship
- 1985 Max Planck pre-doctoral fellowship
- 1978 Studentship by the state of Bavaria ("Bayerische Begabtenförderung"), funding the top 1% of students through their studies
