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)