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Curriculum vitae Prof. Müller
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Werner E. G. Müller
Holder of an ERC Advanced Grant
1961–1967 | Study of biology and chemistry, University of Mainz (Ph.D. 1967). |
1967–1971 | Res. Assistant at the Inst. for Physiol. Chemistry, Mainz University. |
1971–1975 | Assoc. Professor, Institute for Physiol. Chemistry, Mainz University. |
1975–1976 | Sabbaticals, Yamagiwa-Yoshida Memorial International Cancer Study Grant, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. (Prof. F.J. Bollum) USA. |
1977 | Head of the Department "Applied Molecular Biology", Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University of Mainz.1989-1995 |
1977 and 1982 | Research visitor at the Institute of Microbial Chemistry (Prof. Dr. H. Umezawa), Tokyo, Japan. |
1986–1991 | Visiting professor at the National Cancer Research Institute (Prof. T. Sugimura; Dr. S. Nishimura; Dr. Y. Kuchino), Tokyo, Japan. |
1993–1999 | Visiting professor (Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science), Graduate School of Medicine (Prof. H. Ushijima), University of Tokyo. |
Research fields
My research activities focus on:
- Deep metazoan phylogeny in order to "reconstruct" and define the genetic repertoire of the Urmetazoa (ancestry of Metazoa)
- Template-directed biomineralization processes, in particular biosilicification in marine and freshwater demosponges and, more recently, formation of the mineral skeletons of deep-sea glass sponges, but also other mineralization processes
- Development of novel applications of the enzymes/proteins involved in biosilica formation in nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine
Activities in the scientific community, honors, awards
1972 | Boehringer Award for Excellence in Pathophysiology Research |
1977 | J.-G.-Zimmermann Award for Excellence in Cancer Research |
1980 | Max-Bürger Award for Gerontology |
1986 | Institute Ruder Boškovic-Medal in Gold; Zagreb |
1986 | Kani-Medal of the Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Res.; Tokyo |
1993 | Research Award of the University of Zagreb. |
1996 | Res. Award from "International Human Frontier Science Program" |
1996 | Award for Science and Research, Croatian Academy of Science |
2002 | Innovation Prize of the Federal State Rheinland-Pfalz |
2005 | Spiridion Brusina Medal from the Croatian Society of Geneticists |
2011 | Selection of his Center of Excellence “BIOTECmarin – Biomaterials from the Sea” as a “Landmark” in the national campaign “Germany - Land of Ideas” |
2012 | Friendship Award, the P.R. China's highest award for foreign experts |
since 2011 | Holder of an ERC Advanced Grant |
since 1970 | Editor or member of the Editorial Boards of a series of Journals and Book Series (e.g., Nucleic Acids Research; Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology [Editor-in-Chief]; Mechanism of Ageing and Development [Editor-in-Chief]; Cellular and Molecular Biology [Co-Editor]; Biomedical Materials [Board member]) |
1990 | Member of the Akademie gemeinnütziger Wissenschaften zu Erfurt [Senat] |
1996 | Member of the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts |
1998 | Member of the Belarus Medical Academy |
2010 | Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences |
2010 | Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Geosciences |
2012 | Guest professor at Tsinghua University Beijing |
2013 | President of IMBA (International Marine Biotechnology Association) |
Project coordination:
Coordinator of numerous international (EU) and national projects, among them the German Center of Excellence “BIOTECmarin” and the ongoing EU FP7 projects “BlueGenics” (large-scale integrating project) on exploiting marine genomics for nano-biomedical applications (such as the therapy of osteoporosis), “Bio-Scaffold” (rapid prototyping/3D printing in bone tissue engineering) and the two ERC projects “BIOSILICA” (ERC Advanced Investigator grant) and Si-Bone-PoC (ERC-Proof-of-Concept project on the development of biosilica-based approaches for treatment of bone diseases)
Publications:
> 1000 peer reviewed publications, > 20 granted patents [Hirsch h-index: 64 (ISI Web of Science)]