Wolfgang Hennig
 
 

Scientific history:
 
 

                                        1960-1963: Study of Biology/Chemistry at the Free University Berlin/Germany

1963-1967: Study of Biology/Genetics/Biochemistry at the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen/Germany

1967: Ph.D. at the Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie, Abt. Beermann, Tübingen/Germany

1967-1972: Research Associate, Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie, Abt. Beermann, Tübingen/Germany

1968: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh, MRC Group on the Mammalian Genome, Edinburgh/Scotland

                                         1972: Habilitation "Biology", Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen/Germany

                                        1973: Habilitation "Molecular Biology", University of Zürich/Switzerland

1973-1974: Oberassistent and Privatdozent, Institute of Molecular Biology II, University of Zürich/Switzerland

1974-1977: Head of an Independent Research Group at the Friedrich-Miescher-Laboratorium

                     of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Tübingen

                                        1978-1997: Professor of Genetics, Head of Department of Genetics, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen/The
                                                            Netherlands  (Emeritus since 1997)

                                       since 1985: Teaching and Research in the Guest Laboratory of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG) ,
                                                             Institute of Cell Biology, Academia Sinica, Shanghai/China
                                                             and since 1991 at the West China University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu/China

                                       since 1991: Honorary Professor of the Academia Sinica, Institute of Cell Biology, Shanghai/China

                                       since 1994: Honorary Professor of the West China University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu/China

                                       1997- 2000: Guestprofessor, Faculty of Medicine, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz/Germany

                                       1998-2000: Member of the Managing Committee of the EBNIC 

                                                            (European Biotechnology Node for Interactions with China)

                                                            an EU-funded activity of the EMBO (see: http://www.ebnic.org)

                                       since 1998: Honorary Professor (Faculty of  Biology), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz/Germany

                                       since 2001: Honorary Professor Tongji Medical College Wuhan/China

                                       2001-2006:  Long term lecturer of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
                                                              at the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

                                       2006-             : CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB), Shanghai 
 
 

Memberships:

European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

American Genetics Society (GSA)

American Cell Biology Society (ASCB)

Gesellschaft für Genetik
 
 

Other Activities

Managing Editor of Chromosoma (1982-2001)

Member of the Editorial Board of Cell Research (Academia Sinica, Shanghai/China)

Member of Steering Committee of BIONET, an EU FP6 consortium on Bioethics (2006-2009)

Member of Expert Group of BIONET (2006-2009)


 
 

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