Curriculum Vitae

Director

Department of Molecular Ecology

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Amann

MPI for Marine Microbiology
Celsiusstr. 1
D-28359 Bremen
Germany

Room: 

2221

Phone: 

+49 421 2028-9300

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Amann

Education

1995 Habilitation, Technical University of Munich, Germany
1988-1989 Postdoc at the Dept. of Veterinary Pathobiology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA (with D.A. Stahl)
1988 Dr. rer. nat., Technical University of Munich, Germany (with K.H. Schleifer)
1986 Degrees in Biology and Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Professional degrees

since 2001 Professor of Microbial Ecology, University of Bremen, Germany
1997-2001 Head of a Max Planck Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
1990-1996 Assistant (Professor) of Microbiology at the Technical University of Munich, Germany

Positions held

2019-2021 Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
2014-2017 Chairperson of the Biology/Medicine Section of the Max Planck Society
2012-2014 Chairperson of the Perspectives Committee Biology/Medicine of the Max Planck Society
2007-2010 Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
2002-2018 Speaker of the International Max Planck Research School MarMic, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen
since 2001 Director at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, Head of the Department of Molecular Ecology

Fellowships and awards

2010 Elected member of the European Academy of Microbiology
2007 Elected member of the Leopoldina – National Academy of Sciences
2004 Bergey´s Award in Systematic Bacteriology
1998 Lecturer´s Award of the Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V.
1996 Award for Biology, Akademie der Wissenschaft zu Göttingen
1995 Koerber Award for European Sciences
1991 Young Scientist Award of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM)

Publications

ResearcherID: C-6534-2014; ~403 articles in peer-reviewed journals; total citations without self-citations in WoS: >62,000, h-index 121

Editorial board

Editor of Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Reviewer tasks

  • Ad hoc reviewer for Nature, Science, PNAS, and all major journals in microbial ecology
  • ERC-AdG panel member LS8 (2008-2015); ERC panel chair for ex-post evaluation ERC-LS8 2016 and ERC-LS1-Synergy Grant 2018
  • DFG elected panel member for microbial ecology 2004-2012
  • Ad hoc reviewer for German, Swiss and Austrian Science Foundations, the German Ministry for Science and Technology, NSF (USA), NERC (UK)

Further Community Services

  • Member of the working group an Digital Sequence Information of the Leopoldina – National Academy of Sciences (2020-2021)
  • Chair of Leopoldina working group "Challenges and chances of integrative taxonomy" (2012-2014)
  • Board member of International Society of Microbial Ecology (ISME) (2012-2016)
  • Meeting president of the Annual Meeting of the German Microbiological Society VAAM 2013 in Bremen

Membership

VAAM and DGHM (the two German microbiological societies), ASM, ISME

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