Lothar Willmitzer#
| Membership Number: | 1583 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1994 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/6789/Lothar_Willmitzer |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1994 Director and Scientific Member of the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
- 1986 - 1994 Professor for Molecular Biology at the University FU Berlin, at the same time Scientific Director of the Institute of Genetic and Biological Research Ltd.
- 1985 - 1986 Leader of an Independent Research Group at the Genetic Research Centre Köln of the Max-Planck-Institute of Research on Breeding
- 1979 - 1984 Scientific work at the Max-Planck-Institute of Research on Breeding, Köln
- 1977 - 1979 Scientific work at the Society of Biotechnological Research, Braunschweig, Dept. Molecular Biology
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular Physiology
- Molecular Plant Physiology
Honours and Awards
- 1981 Otto Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck-Society
- 1994 Max-Planck-Prize of the Max-Planck-Society
- 1994 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1999 Karl Heinz Beckurts-Prize
- 1993 Member of EMBO and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science (Member of the BBAW executive board since 2006)
- 1999 Member of the “Leopoldina”, Halle, German National Academy of Science
- 2014 Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
