Prof. Dr. Peter Güntert

Personal data

• Date of birth: March 29, 1964
• Place of birth: Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Work address

Institute of Biophysical Chemistry J. W. Goethe-University Frankfurt Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, Room N220/105 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Phone: +49-69-798 29621 Fax: +49-69-798 29632 Email: guentert@em.uni-frankfurt.de WWW: http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/

Major research interest

• Computation methods to study biomolecular systems, in particular by NMR

Education

• 1998 Habilitation, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 1993 Ph.D., ETH Zürich, Switzerland, advisors: K. Wüthrich, W. F. van Gunsteren
• 1987 M.Sc. (Diploma in physics), ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Professional positions

• 2007– Professor, Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• 2007– Senior Fellow, Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• 2007– Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
• 2006–2007 Team Leader, NMR Structure Analysis Methodology Team, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan
• 2005–2007 Team Leader, NMR Structure Analysis Methodology Research Team, RIKEN Structural Genomics/Proteomics Initiative, Japan
• 2002–2007 Principal Investigator, Tatsuo Miyazawa Memorial Program, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan
• 2002–2006 Senior Research Scientist, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan
• 1998–2002 Lecturer (Privatdozent), Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 1996–1998 Senior researcher (Oberassistent), Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 1993–1995 Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 1988–1993 Predoctoral researcher, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 1986 High-school teacher for mathematics and computer science, Kantonsschule Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Honors

• 2007 Lichtenberg Professorship, Volkswagen Foundation
• 1997 ETH-Tokyo Institute of Technology Award
• 1993 Medal and Prize for Ph.D. thesis, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 1987 Medal and Prize for M.Sc. (Diploma) thesis, ETH Zürich, Switzerland