Interfakultäres Institut für Mikrobiologie und Infektionsmedizin

Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Wolfgang Wohlleben

Date of birth:29.09.1949
Current position:

Head, Microbiology/Biotechnology

Interfaculty Inst. of Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen (IMIT)

University of Tübingen

Auf der Morgenstelle 28

D-72076 Tübingen

Phone: +49-7071-29 76944

E-mail: wolfgang.wohlleben@biotech.uni-tuebingen.de

Academic career

Since 2019Senior Professor, Microbiologie/Biotechnology, University of Tübingen
1994 - 2019Full Professor, Microbiology/Biotechnology, University of Tübingen
1992 - 1994Associate Professor, Saarland University, Saarbrücken
1984 - 1992Permanent Position, University of Bielefeld
1980 - 1984Scientific Assistant, Department of Genetics, University of Bielefeld
1977 - 1979Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry, University of Erlangen
1974 - 1977Ph.D. Thesis, Physical Chemistry Department, University of Erlangen

Scholarships, Awards and Administrative functions

2007 - 2019Speaker of the Collaborative Research Center CRC766 “Bacterial Cell Envelope”: Structure, Function, and Infection Interface”
2004 - 2006Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Biology
1998 - 2000Dean of the Faculty of Biology
2001 - 2013Editor of “Chemistry&Biology” (Cell Press)
2001 - 2020Member of the DECHEMA–committee „Low-molecular Natural Products“
2000Cofounder of Combinature Biopharm AG, Berlin
1999 - 2012Speaker, Section “Bacterial Producers of Natural Compounds” of the VAAM (German Microbiology Association)
Since 1981Inventor of more than 25 patents (application)
1974 - 1977Ph.D.-Fellowship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes