Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. F.-Ulrich Hartl

Prof. Dr. F.-Ulrich Hartl

Director - Cellular Biochemistry

1989 - 1990
Postdoctoral Fellow
Laboratory of Prof. W. Wickner, University of California at Los Angeles, Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council)

1985 - 1986
Director and Scientific Member
Laboratory of Prof. W. Neupert at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University of Munich

1990
Dr. med. habil
University of Munich, Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Chair of Prof. W. Neupert. Title: Topogenesis of Mitochondrial Proteins: Mechanisms of Sorting and Assembly of Proteins into the Mitochondrial Subcompartments

1985
Dr. med.
University of Heidelberg, Laboratory of Prof. H. Schimassek at the Institute of Biochemistry Title: The Regulation of Rat Liver Peroxisomal Metabolism by Thyroid Hormones

1982
M.D
University of Heidelberg, Germany


Professional Appointments


Since 2002
Managing Director
Max Planck Institut of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Since 1997
Director
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

1994 - 1997
Associate Investigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

1994 - 1997
Member (with tenure)
Program in Cellular Biochemistry and Biophysics, Sloan-Kettering Institute , New York,
Professor of Cell Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York

1991 - 1992
Associate Member
Program in Cellular Biochemistry & Biophysics, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York
1990 - 1991
"Akademischer Rat"
Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University of Munich, Germany
1987 - 1989
Group Leader
Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University of Munich, Germany


Awards and Honors


2023
Schleiden Medal

2022
Nakasone Award

2021
Bavarian Maximilian Order

2019
Highly cited researcher (Web of Science)

2019
Breakthrough Prize in Lifesciences

2019
Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research

2019
Paul Ehrlich and- Ludwig Darmstaedter-Prize (University of Frankfurt)

2018
Introduction to ‘Hall of Fame of German Research'

2017
Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine, Hungary

2017
E.B. Wilson Medal, ASCB

2017
Verna and Marrs McLean Lectureship in Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

2017
T.Y Shen Lectureship, MIT Chemistry Department

2016
Award of Vallee Visiting Professorship (Vallee Foundation, Boston)

2016
Elected Inaugural Fellow of the American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB)

2016
Ernst Schering Prize

2016
Albany Medical Center Prize

2015
Wenner-Gren Distinguished Lecturer, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Stockholm

2014
Doctor of Science honoris causa, La Trobe University, Melbourne

2014
The Linacre Lecturer, St. John's College, Cambridge

2013
Biochemical Analytic Prize of the German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (DGKL)

2013
Tabor Research Award

2012
Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine, Hong-Kong

2012
Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology

2011
Heinrich Wieland-Prize of the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation

2011
Massry Prize, Los Angeles, USA

2011
Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, New York, USA

2011
Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA

2010
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

2010
The Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

2010
The Twenty-Seventh Annual Cynthia Ann Chan Memorial Lecture, University of California, Berkeley

2010
van Gysel Prize for Biomedical Research in Europe - 2009

2010
Election to AAAS Fellow

2009
Otto Warburg Medal of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM)

2008
Honorary Member, Japanese Biochemical Society

2008
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

2008
Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award

2007
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences

2006
Koerber European Science Award

2006
Stein and Moore Award of the Protein Society

2005
Ernst Jung-Prize for Medicine

2004
Gairdner Foundation International Award, Canada

2004
Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences

2003
Feldberg Prize

2002
Member Leopoldina, German Academy of Sciences

2002
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council)

2000
Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2000
Wilhelm Vaillant Research Prize

1999
Academy Prize of the Academy of Science of Berlin-Brandenburg

1998
EMBO Member

1997
Foreign Member of the Academy of Science of Nordrhein-Westfalen

1997
Honorary Professor, University of Munich

1997
Lipmann Award of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

1996
Vinci Award, LVMH Science for Art competition

1995
Appointment to William E. Snee Chair of Cellular Biochemistry at Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York

1994
Howard Hughes Appointment

1985
Summa cum laude , University of Heidelberg

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