Thomas Becker#
| Membership Number: | 7182 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ibmb.uni-bonn.de/de/forschung/ag-becker |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1138-5263 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 Professor and Director of the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bonn, Germany
- 2020 Head of the Core Facility "Analytical Proteomics", University of Bonn, Germany
- 2009 - 2020 Group leader, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg
- 2006 - 2009 Post-doctoral fellow, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg
- 2005 - 2005 Post-doctoral fellow, Biology I, Botany, University of Munich
- 2002 - 2005 Dissertation (Dr. rer. nat.), Biology I, Botany, University of Munich
Fields of Scholarship
- Protein translocation
- Membrane proteins
- Protein assembly
- Protein biogenesis
- Protein quality control
- Protein sorting
- Protein targeting
- Mitochondria
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Helmut-Holzer award of the Freiburg Scientific Society
- 2005 Award for PhD thesis of the Munich Scientific Society
- 2005 Dissertation with summa cum laude
- 2002 Diploma in biology with distinction
