Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL DATA
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Friedrich Förster |
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Date of Birth |
08.04.1975 |
Buchholz i.d. Nordheide, Germany |
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Personal details |
male,married, 3 children |
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Affiliation |
Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research Utrecht University Padualaan 8 3584 CH Utrecht, Netherlands |
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EDUCATION
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2001-2005 |
PhD in Physics Technical University of Munich |
Munich, Germany |
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1995-2000 |
Diploma in Physics RWTH University Aachen |
Aachen, Germany |
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1994 |
Abitur Gymnasium Othmarschen |
Hamburg, Germany |
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
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2016- |
Professor Utrecht University |
Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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2009-2016 |
IndependentGroup Leader Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry |
Martinsried, Germany |
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2008-2009 |
Postdoctoral Scholar Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry |
Martinsried, Germany |
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2005-2008 |
Postdoctoral Scholar University of California, San Francisco |
San Francisco, USA |
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2001-2005 |
PhD student Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry |
Martinsried, Germany |
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1999-2000 |
Diploma student Research Centre Jülich |
Jülich, Germany
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1998-1999 |
Student assistant RWTH University Aachen |
Aachen, Germany |
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1994-1995 |
Military service |
Lüneburg, Germany |
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FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
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2017 |
NWO Vici Award |
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2016 |
ERC Consolidator Grant Award |
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2009 |
Human Frontier Science Project Career Development Award |
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2006 |
Human Frontier Science Project Longterm fellowship |
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2001 |
Kekulé Doctoral fellowship of the Fonds der Deutschen Chemischen Industrie (FCI) |
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2005 |
Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry Junior Research Award 2005 |
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2001 |
RWTH Springorum medal |
5 REPRESENTATIVE RECENT PUBLICATIONS
>11,000 citations, h-index 51 (Google scholar )
- Liaci AM, Steigenberger B*, de Souza PCT*, Tamara S*, Gröllers-Mulderij M, Ogrissek P, Marrink SJ, Scheltema RA, Förster F: Structure of the Human Signal Peptidase Complex Reveals the Determinants for Signal Peptide Cleavage. Molecular Cell 2021, 81:3934-48.
- Braunger K*, Pfeffer S*, Shrimal S, Gilmore R, Berninghausen O, Mandon EC, Becker T, Förster F, Beckmann R: Structural basis for coupling protein transport and N-glycosylation at the mammalian endoplasmic reticulum. Science 360:215-219 (2018).
- Pfeffer S, Burbaum L, Unverdorben P, Pech M, Chen Y, Zimmermann R, Beckmann R, Förster F: Structure of the native Sec61 protein-conducting channel. Nat. Comm. 2015, 6:8403.
- Pfeffer S*, Woelhaff M*, Hermann J, Förster F: Organization of the mitochondrial translation machinery studied in situ by cryo-electron tomography. Nat. Comm. 2015, 6:6019.
- Unverdorben P, Beck F, Sledz P, Schweitzer A, Pfeifer G, Plitzko JM, Baumeister W, Förster F: Deep classification of a large cryo-EM dataset defines the conformational landscape of the 26S proteasome. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2014, 111:5544–9.
*: equal contribution