Wolfgang Baumeister | |
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| Born | (1946-11-22)November 22, 1946 (age 79) Wesseling, Germany |
| Education | University of Münster University of Bonn Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
| Known for | Cryoelectron tomography |
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| Institutions | Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry Technical University of Munich |
| Doctoral advisor | Helmut Ruska |
| Notable students | Andrei Lupaș (postdoc) Elizabeth Villa (postdoc) Julia Mahamid (postdoc) |
| Website | www |
Wolfgang P. Baumeister (born 22 November 1946, inWesseling borderingCologne) is a German molecular biologist and biophysicist. His research has been pivotal in the development ofCryoelectron tomography.
After completing hisAbitur, Wolfgang Baumeister studied biology, chemistry, and physics from 1966 to 1967 at theUniversity of Münster and from 1967 to 1969 at theUniversity of Bonn. At theHeinrich Heine University Düsseldorf he was a graduate student from 1970 to 1973 and a research associate from 1973 to 1980 in the department of biophysics. He received hisPromotion in 1973 and hisHabilitation in 1978. From 1981 to 1982 he was a Heisenberg Fellow at the physics department of theCavendish Laboratory of England'sUniversity of Cambridge.[1]
From 1983 to 1987 he was group leader (with rankC3, Professor Extraordinarius) of the "Molecular Structural Biology" working group at theMax Planck Institute of Biochemistry inMartinsried nearMunich.[1] The MPI's research department of "Molecular Structural Biology" does research involving molecular biological structures revealed byelectron microscopy, cryoelectron tomography, protein and cell structure, andprotein degradation[2] He was anaußerplanmäßiger Professor from 1984 to 1987 at theUniversity of Düsseldorf and is since 1987 anaußerplanmäßiger Professor in the Faculty of Chemistry of theTechnical University of Munich. Since 1988 he is the head of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry's department of structural biology.[1] Since 2000 he has also been an honorary professor in the Faculty of Physics of the Technical University of Munich.[3]
Baumeister has served on the editorial boards of several journals, includingCurrent Biology, theJournal of Microscopy, theJournal of Structural Biology, andTrends in Cell Biology.[1] He is now the editor-in-chief ofBiochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.[4]
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