Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Dr. Petra Schwille
DirectorDirector of the Department Cellular and Molecular Biophysics
Honorary Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (Physics Faculty), Munich, Germany
Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Full Professor of Biophysics
BIOTEC, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
BIOTEC, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
Group Leader
Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Postdoctoral Fellow
Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
PhD
Braunschweig University of Technology
Braunschweig University of Technology
Doctoral Thesis
Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany; Supervisor: Prof. Manfred Eigen
Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany; Supervisor: Prof. Manfred Eigen
Study of Physics and Philosophy
Universities of Stuttgart and Göttingen, Germany
Universities of Stuttgart and Göttingen, Germany
Higher Education
Hölderlin-Gymnasium, Lauffen am Neckar, Germany
Hölderlin-Gymnasium, Lauffen am Neckar, Germany
born January 25th
Sindelfingen, Germany
Sindelfingen, Germany
Honors and Fellowships
Otto-Warburg Medal
Carl Zeiss Lecture Prize
Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
Membership Academia Europaea
Biophysical Society Fellow
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society
Membership, EMBO
Membership Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences & Humanties (BBAW)
Suffrage Science Award, MRC-CSC, London
Membership of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
Braunschweig Research Prize
Membership of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Max-Planck-Fellow of the MPI for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Philip Morris Research Prize
Young Investigator Award for Biotechnology of the Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Foundation
Lecturer award by the German Chemical Industry Fund
"Biofuture" (funding of a young investigator group), German Ministry of Education and Science, Berlin, Germany
Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for Postdoctoral Research at Cornell-University, USA
DAAD-Fellowship for Graduate Student Research at the Karolinska Institute Stockholm, Sweden