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Prof. Dr. Volker A. Erdmann Free University Berlin Institute for Chemistry / Biochemistry Thielallee 63 14195 Berlin Germany phone: + 49 30 83 85 60 02 FAX: + 49 30 83 85 64 03 e-mail: erdmann@chemie.fu-berlin.de |
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Prof. Dr. Volker A. Erdmann |
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Prof. Dr. Volker A. Erdmann Free University Berlin Institute for Chemistry / Biochemistry Thielallee 63 14195 Berlin Germany phone: + 49 30 83 85 60 02 FAX: + 49 30 83 85 64 03 e-mail: erdmann@chemie.fu-berlin.de |
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Date and place of birth: February 8th, 1941 in Stettin
Marital status: married, two children
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1958 - 1963 |
University
of New Hampshire, Durham, N. H., USA, B.A. in Chemistry |
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1963 - 1966 |
University of New Hampshire, Durham,
N. H., USA, Master of
Science in Biochemistry |
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1966 - 1968 |
Max-Planck-Institute
for experimental Medicine, Göttingen and |
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1968 - 1969 |
Postdoctoral position in Prof. Cramer's lab (MPI, Göttingen) |
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1969 - 1971 |
Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Dr. Masayasu Nomura with a grant by the National Instituts of Health (NIH), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., USA |
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1971 - 1980 |
Head
of a scientific research team (C3-position) at Max-Planck-Institute for
Molecular Genetics, Berlin, in the department of Prof. Dr. Heinz-Günter Wittmann |
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1978 |
Postdoctoral lecturing qualification ('Habilitation') in Biochemistry at the Chemistry Faculty of the Free University Berlin |
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1980 |
Offer of a C4-Professorship at the Free University Berlin, Faculty of Chemistry, Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chair accepted in 1980 |
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1980 - 1984 |
Managing Director of the Institute of Biochemisty |
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1984 - 1987 |
Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry |
1987 |
Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-award
of the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
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1987 - 1990 |
Managing Director of the Institute of Biochemisty |
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1988 |
Offer of a full Professorship at the Center of Marine Biotechnology and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Offer rejected |
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1989 |
Offer as external Professor at the Center of Marine Biotechnology and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Offer accepted in 1989 |
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1990 - 1999 |
Speaker
of the Special Research Field (No. 344) „Regulationsstrukturen
von Nukleinsäuren und Proteinen“ of the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
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1990 - 1993 |
Head of the examination committee for diplomas in Biochemistry |
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1994 |
Offer by the Center of Marine Biotechnology, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, as Director and Offer by the University of Maryland, for a Full Professorship, Offers rejected |
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since 1997 |
Managing
Director of the Institute of Biochemistry |
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1997 - 1998 |
Coordinator
of the Interdisciplinary Research Area (IFV |
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since 1998 |
CEO of the RiNA e.V. within the network for RNA technologies |
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz award 1987 |
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Member of the Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
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CEO of the RiNA e. V. (RNA network) |
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Founder of RiNA GmbH |
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Scientific advisory board of Noxxon Pharma AG |
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Member of a number of advisory councils, committees, prize and award committees and expert groups |
Last Update: 29.1.2001