Volker Haucke - Biography#

Volker Haucke received his PhD summa cum laude (1997) from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland, for his work on mitochondrial biogenesis in the group of Gottfried (Jeff) Schatz. Following postdoctoral work as a fellow of EMBO and the Human Frontier Science Program in the group of Pietro De Camilli at Yale he started his own laboratory at the University of Göttingen. He became professor of biochemistry at the Freie Universiät Berlin in 2003. Since 2012 Volker Haucke is director at the Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmacologie (FMP) and professor of molecular pharmacology and a member of the NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence. The focus of research in his laboratory is the dissection of the molecular mechanisms of endocytosis and endolysosomal membrane dynamics and its role in cell signaling and neurotransmission. Among his major discoveries are the identification of novel lipid conversion mechanisms that control exo- and endocytosis and cell signaling, the dissection of novel pathways of synaptic vesicle transport and biogenesis and the identification of small molecule endocytosis inhibitors.

His contributions have been recognized by his election as a Member of Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Science (Halle), a Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science, and the Avanti Award of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) 2017. Since 2014 he is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO). He is an active member of the American Society for Cell Biology, Bethesda, USA (ASCB), the American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB), the Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C. (SFN), the German Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Frankfurt, (GBM), and the German Society for Cell Biology (DGZ), Heidelberg.

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