Petra Schwille#
| Membership Number: | 4715 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/rd/schwille |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2012 Honorary Professor at LMU München (Faculty of Physics)
- Since 2011 Scientific Member and Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
- 2002 - 2012 Professor at BIOTEC Center, TU Dresden
- 1999 - 2002 Junior Group leader, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
- 1997 - 1999 Postdoc, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- 1996 - 1997 Postdoc, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
Fields of Scholarship
- Single molecule spectroscopy
- Fluorescence microscopy
- Synthetic biology
- Microsystems technology
- Membrane biophysics
Honours and Awards
- 2001 Lecturer award by the German Chemical Industry Fund
- 2003 Young Investigator Award for Biotechnology of the Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Foundation
- 2004 Philip Morris Research Prize 2004
- 2005 Max Planck Fellow of the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular cell biology and Genetics
- 2010 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 2010 Membership of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
- 2011 Braunschweig Research Prize
- 2012 Membership of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
- 2013 Suffrage Science Award, MRC-CSC, London
- 2013 Membership, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanties (BBAW)
- 2013 Membership, EMBO
- 2015 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society
- 2017 Biophysical Society Fellow
- 2008 - 2016 Member of Scientific Advisory Board, Leibniz Institute of Polymer research, Dresden (IPF)
- 2008 - 2016 Panel Reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Since 2008 Board of trustees, Chemical Industry Fund (VCI)
- 2009 - 2013 Editorial Board Member, New Journal of Physics
- Since 2009 Editorial Board Member, European Biophysical Journal
- Since 2010 Editorial Board Member, Journal of Structural Biology
- 2010 - 2014 Board of Trustees, Welt der Physik (Online Portal of the German Physical Society)
- Since 2011 Editorial Board Member, ChemPhysChem
- Since 2011 Editorial Board Member, Angewandte Chemie
- Since 2012 Editorial Board Member, Methods and Applications of Fluorescence (MAF)
- Since 2012 Scienctific Advisory Board Member, MRC Clinical Science Center, London
- Since 2012 Scientific Advisory Board, FMP Berlin
- Since 2012 Board of Trustees, Heinrich Wieland Prize
- Since 2013 Scienctific Board Member, IST Austria
- Since 2017 Board of Trustees, German chemical industry association, Frankfurt/Main
- Since 2017 Scientific Advisory Council, BioM Biotech Cluster Development GmbH
- Since 2018 Board of Trustees, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
