Gunnar von Heijne#
| Membership Number: | 1789 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.sbc.su.se/gunnar http://www.dbb.su.se/en/?p=researchgroup&id=55 |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2006 Director of the Center for Biomembrane Research, Stockholm University
- 2000-2006 Director of Stockholm Bioinformatics Center
- since 1994 Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Stockholm University
- 1989-1994 Associate Professor, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
- 1982-1985 Science correspondent for the Swedish National Radio (half-time)
- 1981-1988 Assitant Professor, Dept of Theoretcial Physics, Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm, and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
- 1980-1981 Postdoc Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- 1980 Ph.D Theoretical Physics, Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm
- 2003 Professor, Computer Science, ETH Zurich)
- 1999-2002 Full Professor, Computer Science, Univ. Munich, Germany
- 1988-1999 Lecturer, Univ. Heidelberg, Germany
- 1987 Ph.D. Mathematics, Univ. Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular biology
- Cell biology
- Bioiformatics
- Membrane proteins
- Protein sorting
Honours and Awards
- 1990 The T. Svedberg Award, The Swedish Biochemical Society
- 1994 Elected EMBO member
- 1995 The Göran Gustafsson Prize, The Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 1997 The Arrhenius Medal, The Swedish Chemical Society
- 1997 Elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 1998 Elected member of the Academia Europaea
- 1998 The Björkén Prize, Uppsala University
- 2000 Elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
- 2002 EMBL Distinguished Visitor Lecturer
- 2002 “Excellence” Award, the Swedish Research Council
- 2004 The George W. Raiziz Biochemical Rounds Lecture, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- 2006 EMBO Lecture, Danish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- 2007 “Friday Lecturer”, Rockefeller University
- 2008 Kroc Lecturer, MIT
- 2008 Honorary Doctorate, Åbo Akademi
- 2009 The van Deenen Medal, Utrecht University
- 2012 The NCMLS Lecture, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences
- 2012 The Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award of the International Society for Comuptational Biology
