Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis @ Greifswald University

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Scientific Career
Fellowships/Awards
Journals
Others
Personal

Contact
Dept. of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis
Institute of Biochemistry
Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 4
D-17487 Greifswald/ Germany
Phone: +49 (0)3834-86-4367
Phone: +49 (0)3834-86-4391 (Sekr.)
Fax: +49 (0)3834-86-80066
E-Mail: uwe.bornscheuer[at]uni-greifswald.de

Scientific Career
Febr. - March 2010: Research stay at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

Oct. 2004: Declined offers for positions at Bergakademie Freiberg/Sachsen (C4-Professor for 'Technische Chemie & Biotechnologie'), TU Hamburg-Harburg (C4-Professor for 'Technische Biochemie/Biokatalyse').

Oct. 2003 - March 2004: Sabbatical at Diversa Corp., San Diego, USA.

2002-2008: Managing Director of the Institute for Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Greifswald.

Since Oct. 1999: Professor at the Institute for Chemistry & Biochemistry, Dept. of Technical Chemistry & Biotechnology, University of Greifswald.

1999: 'Privatdozent' at the Institute for Technical Biochemistry (ITB), University of Stuttgart.

1994-1998: 'Habilitation' at the ITB (Prof. R.D. Schmid)
Thesis: "New Strategies for the Application of Lipases and Esterases in Organic Synthesis".

1993-1994: Postdoc at the University of Nagoya, Japan
(Prof. T. Yamane).

1991-1993: Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Hannover, Department of Technical Chemistry
(Prof. K. Schügerl, Prof. T. Scheper).

1990: Diploma (~ M. Sc.) in Chemistry at the University of Hannover, Department of Technical Chemistry.

1985-1990: University of Hannover, Study of Chemistry.

Birthday-Present Januar 2003:

Upon Return During Sabbatical, Dec. 2003:

Biketour somewhere in Bavaria, 2008

With his brand new bike, 2011

Fellowships/Awards

2012: Chevreul-Medal from the French Society of Lipid Research (SFEL), Paris, France.
2010: Stipend from the 'Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science', Tokyo, Japan.
2008: Biocat2008 Award received at Biocat2008 conference, Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
1996: Guest professor at the University of Benin, Cotonou, Benin, Africa.
1993: Stipend from the 'Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science', Tokyo, Japan.
1993: Award of the 'Fonds der Chemischen Industrie', Frankfurt, Germany.

Journals

Editor-In-Chief of the "Eur.J. Lipid Science & Technol."
Chairmen of Editorial Board of "ChemCatChem"
Co-Editor of the Römpp-Online (together with Prof. Streit) and responsible for the area "Biotechnologie & Gentechnik"
Member of the Editorial Board of "Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology"
Associate Editor of "Biocatalysis and Biotransformation"
Member of the Editorial Board of "Biotechnology Letters "
Member of the Editorial Board of the "Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic"
Associate Editor of the "Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society"
Member of the Editorial Board of "Lipid Technology"
Section Editor of the "International Journal of Molecular Sciences"
Member of the Editorial Board of "Microbial Biotechnology"
Member of the Editorial Board of the "Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology"
Member of the Editorial Board of the "Electronic Journal of Polish Agricultural Universities" Biotechnology-Series

Others

Organized GRC Biocatalysis 2010
Chairmen of the Board of Directors of the company Enzymicals
President (2007-2009) and Head of Biotechnology & Biochemistry Division of the German Society for Fat Research ("Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fettwissenschaft - DGF")
Treasurer of EuroFedLipid
Speaker of the 'Biotransformation' section of the 'Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie', VAAM (together with C. Syldatk, B. Hauer, J. Eck, A. Schmid)
Member of the Advisory Board of the Max-Rubner Institut
Member of the Advisory Board of 'Lifegen.de'
Member of the "Section on Applied Biocatalysis" of the European Federation of Biotechnology

Personal

Born January 1964 in Frankenhain, Hessen, Germany. Married to Dr. Tanja Kummer, one daughter (Annika). One hobby

Frankenhain, Hessen

Biketour near Anza-Borrego desert, CA, USA

Biketour somewhere in Saxonia, 2009

Lost in the woods near Rheinsberg, 2010

News

Two new books published!

Biocatalysts & Enzyme Technology, 2nd edition, Wiley-VCH.

Protein Engineering Handbook (Vol. 3) Wiley-VCH.

We published a review "Engineering the third wave in biocatalysis" in Nature!

Uwe Bornscheuer has received the "Chevreul-Medal" of the French Society for Lipid Research (SFEL).

Three former PhD students are now Junior-Professor:

Anett Schallmey (Aachen)

Robert Kourist (Bochum)

Matthias Höhne (Greifswald)

Author profile:

An author profile about Uwe Bornscheuer has been published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.

Cluster Partner:

Partner in the 'White Biotechnology' cluster 'Biokatalyse2021' funded by the BMBF.

Contact
Prof. Dr. Uwe Bornscheuer
Institute of Biochemistry
Dept. of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis
Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 4
D-17487 Greifswald/ Germany

Phone:
+49 (0)3834-86-4367
+49 (0)3834-86-4391 (Secr.)
Fax:
+49 (0)3834-86-794367
E-Mail:
uwe.bornscheuer