Ulrich Schwaneberg

Ulrich Schwaneberg graduated in chemistry and received his PhD in 1999 (supervisor Prof. R. D. Schmid) from the University in Stuttgart. He was, after a post-doc at Caltech in the lab of the Noble laureate Prof. Frances H. Arnold, appointed as Professor at the Jacobs University Bremen in 2002. In January 2009 he moved to the RWTH Aachen University as Head of the Institute of Biotechnology and is since 2010 co-appointed in the Scientific Board of Directors at the Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials.

Furthermore, he coordinates with Prof. Bergs the competence center Bio4MatPro (one of two BMBF flagship projects in the bioeconomy model region), the Materials Lab Incubator MerLIn, serves in the board of directors in the Bioeconomy Science Center, and is Speaker of the RWTH profile area Molecular Science & Engineering. He cofounded the companies SeSaM Biotech & Aachen Proteineers and has a special interest in Protein engineering to understand fundamental structure-function relationships and to design with own methodologies tailored proteins as building blocks for the biological transformation of material science and production. In 2016, he received the BMBF-Forschungspreis for the next generation of bioprocesses and has published >400 original manuscripts and is coinventor on >30 patents, mostly with industry.