Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. Jörg Hacker
President of the Robert Koch Institute
| Name: | Jörg Hinrich Hacker |
| Date of birth: | 13.02.1952 in Grevesmühlen/Mecklenburg, Germany |
| Marital status: | Married to Dr. phil. Margit Hacker with two children |
| Adress: | Robert Koch Institute Nordufer 20, 13353 Berlin Phone 030-18754-2001 Fax 030-18754-2610 E-Mail: HackerJ@rki.de |
| Academic and professional history: | |
| 1970 - 1974 | Undergraduate degree in biology; Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg |
| 1979 | Dr. rer. nat. (equivalent to Ph.D.), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg |
| 1980 - 1988 | Research fellow, University of Würzburg, Chair for Microbiology |
| 1986 | Dr. rer. nat. habil., 'Habilitation' at the University of Würzburg |
| 1988 | Appointment as a C3 Professor for Microbiology at the University of Würzburg |
| 1993 | Full Professor and Chair for Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases, University of Würzburg |
| 2000, 2005 | Research fellow at the Institut Pasteur, Paris (6 months each) |
| 2006 | Guest professor at the Sackler Institute for Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| Since 2008 | President of the Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin |
| Selected honors and grateful memberships: | |
| 1988 | Academic Award for Biology of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| 1994 | Main award of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology |
| 1995 | Honory member of the Hungarian Society for Microbiology |
| 1998 | Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |
| 2001 | Carus-Medal of the 'Leopoldina' and Carus-Award of the City of Schweinfurt |
| 2002 | Honory doctorate, University of Umea, Sweden |
| 2003 | Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| 2003 | Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) |
| 2004 | Honory doctorate, University of Pecs, Hungary |
| 2004 | Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology |
| 2005 | Fellow of the Sackler Institute for Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| 2006 | Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich |
| 2006 | André-Lwoff-Award of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) |
| 2007 | Honory member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2008 | Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Award, France |
| 2008 | Arthur-Burkhardt Award, Germany |
| 2009 | Honorary doctorate, University of Hyderabad, India |
| 2009 | Honorary senator of the University of Würzburg |
| Selected positions in scientific societies and foundations: | |
| 1996 - | Member of the Board of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation |
| 1998 - | Member of the Scientific Board of the Robert Koch Foundation |
| 2000 - 2003 | Expert consultant of the German Research Foundation |
| 2003 - 2009 | Vice President of the German Research Foundation |
| 2004 - | Member of the Scientific Board of the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany |
| 2005 - | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Umea Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), University of Umea, Sweden |
| 2006 - | Member of the Board, University of Marburg |
| 2007 - | Member of the Senate of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |
| 2007 - | Member of the Scientific Council of the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France |
| 2008 - | Member of the Foundation Board of the Paul-Ehrlich Foundation |
| 2009 - | Member of the Board of Trustees of the Max-Planck-Institute in Berlin |
| Coordination of research projects and participation in scientific networks (selection) | |
| 2001 - | Co-coordinator of the BMBF-network programme 'PathoGenoMik' and 'PathoGenoMik Plus' |
| 2005 - | Coordinator of the EU-programme 'EuroPathoGenomics' (Network of Excellence, 6th Framework Programme of the EU) |
| 2006 - | Member and deputy representative of the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 34 'Pathophysiology of staphylococci' , Universities of Greifswald, Tübingen and Würzburg |
| 2007 - | Representative for the project area 'E. coli' of the 'ERA-NET PathoGenoMics' network |
| Main research interests | |
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Berlin, 16 July 2009
Jörg Hacker