Department of Molecular Ecology
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Celsiusstraße 1
D-28359 Bremen
Germany

Phone: +49 421 2028-930
Fax: +49 421 2028-580
E-Mail: ramannmpi-bremen.de

Education

1988-1989	Postdoc at the Depts. of Veterinary Pathobiology & Microbiology of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign with Prof. D.A. Stahl
1986-1988	Ph.D. study at Dept. Microbiology, TU München entitled "The beta-subunit of ATP-Synthase as a phylogenetic marker of Bacteria" (Prof. K.-H. Schleifer)
1980-1986	Studies of Biology/Chemistry at the Technische Universität München

Academic Positions

2001- present	Director at Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Head of the Department of Molecular Ecology
	Full Professor for Molecular Ecology at the University of Bremen
1997-2001	Head of the Independent Junior Research Group "Molecular Ecology" at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen
1990-1996	Assistant Professor of Microbiology at the Department of Microbiology at the TU München. Research Areas: molecular ecology, wastewater microbiology

Professional interests

Analysis of the diversity, quantitative composition and function of marine microbial communities based on nucleic acid techniques including genomics

Services, Honors, Awards

Reviewer for DFG (elected), NSF, NERC; Editor of the journals "Environmental Microbiology" and "Systematic and Applied Microbiology"

2008 (reelected) 2004	Elected referee in the panel Microbiology, Virology and Immunology of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2007	Elected Member of the German Academy of Science, Leopoldina (Halle, Germany)
2004-present	Head of the scientific advisory board of the Center for Biotechnology of the University Bielefeld
2004-present	Head of the Microbial Node of the EU Network of Excellence ”Marine Genomics Europe”
2004	Bergey’s Award for contributions to systematic bacteriology
2002 - present	Spokesperson of the International Max Planck Research School MarMic
1998 - present	Organizer and lecturer of an international Molecular Microbial Ecology course at the University of Zurich (Lago Cadagno, Alpine Biol. Center Piora)
1998	Award of the Fonds der chemischen Industrie
1995	Koerber Award for European Sciences
1991	Young Scientist Award of German Soc. of Microbiology (DGHM)

Publications

> 300 peer-reviewed original publications

Rudolf Amann
Prof. Dr. rer. nat.

Born on June 3rd, 1961 in Rott/Inn. Study of Biology and Chemistry at the TU Munich (1980-86), Ph.D. at the Dept. of Microbiology (Prof. Schleifer) of the TU Munich (1988), Postdoc at the University of Illinois (1988-89), Assistant Professor at the Dept. Microbiology of the TU Munich (1990-96); Habilitation at the Technical University of Munich with a thesis on "In situ identification of single microbial cells with rRNA-targeted nucleic acid probes" (1995). Head of the Independent Junior Group "Molecular Ecology" at the MPI for Marine Microbiology in Bremen (1997-2001), since May 2001 Professor for Molecular Ecology at the University of Bremen, Director at the MPI for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Head of the Department of Molecular Ecology (since July 2001).