Professor Dr. rer. physiol., Dr. h.c. Ulrike Beisiegel
- Born 23. December 1952 in Mühlheim/Ruhr
Scientific career
- 1971 – 1974
Studies of Biology, University of Münster and Marburg - 1974 – 1976
Studies of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Marburg - 1979
Dr. rer. physiol. at the Faculty of Medicine, University, Marburg - 1979 – 1980
Scientific assistant at the Institute of Human Genetics, Marburg - 1980 – 1982
Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Drs. Goldstein and Brown, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas, Dallas - 1982 – 1984
Scientific assistant in the Institute of Human Genetics, Marburg - 1984 – 1996
Assistant Professor, Medical Clinic, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf - 1990
Habilitation in Biochemistry, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf - 1996
C3-Professor in Hamburg-Eppendorf - 2001 – 2010
Director of the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II: Molecular Cell Biology, Medical Faculty, University of Hamburg - 2011 - 2019
President of the University of Göttingen
- 2000 – 2008
Member of the Review Board Biological Chemistry and Physics, DFG - 2000 – 2005
Member of the Ombudsman, University of Hamburg - 2001 – 2005
Dean of Research, Medical Faculty, University of Hamburg - 2002 – 2005
Chairperson of the European Atherosclerosis Society - 2002 – 2010
Member of the Evaluation Committee, Leibniz Association - 2005 – 2010
Chair of the Ombudsman of the DFG – German Research Foundation - 2006 – 2011
Member of the Wissenschaftsrat – Advisory board to the German Government - 2008 – 2010
Chairperson of the Wissenschaftsrat’s Scientific Commission - since 2009
Member of the Senate of the Leibniz Association - since 2011
Member of the Senate of the Max-Planck-Society - 2012 – 2018
Vice President of the German Rectors` Conference - since 2014
Member of the Board of the Rectors`Conference of Lower Saxony - since 2018
Member of the University Council of the University of Graz
Honors & Awards
- 1983
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize from the German Ministry of Education and Science - 1996
Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Umeå (Sweden) - 2008
Rudolf Schönheimer Medal of the German Atherosclerosis Society - 2014
Ubbo Emmius Medal of the University of Groningen (Netherlands) - 2015
Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Edinburgh (Great Britain)