Research Groups
University of Potsdam - Institute for Biochemistry and Biology - Research Groups
Full Professors
- Animal Ecology
Prof. Dr. Jana Eccard
- Animal Physiology
Prof. Dr. Salim Seyfried
- Biochemistry
Prof. Dr. Petra Wendler
- Bioinformatics
Prof. Dr. Zoran Nikoloski
- Biodiversity Research / Botany
Prof. Dr. Anja Linstädter
- Cell Biology
Prof. Dr. Ralph Gräf
- Didactics in Biology
Prof. Dr. Helmut Prechtl
- Ecology and Ecosystem Modelling
Prof. Dr. Ursula Gaedke
- Evolutionary Adaptive Genomics
Prof. Dr. Michael Hofreiter
- Evolutionary Biology / Systematic Zoology
Prof. Dr. Ralph Tiedemann
- Ecology/Macroecology
Prof. Dr. Damaris Zurell
- Genetics
Prof. Dr. Michael Lenhard
- Microbiology
Prof. Dr. Elke Dittmann
- Molecular Biology
Prof. Dr. Bernd Müller-Röber
- Molecular Biotechnology
Prof. Dr. Katja Arndt
- Molecular Enzymology
Prof. Dr. Silke Leimkühler
- Plant Epigenetics
Prof. Dr. Isabel Bäurle
- Plant Physiology
Prof. Dr. Markus Grebe
- Physical Biochemistry
Prof. Dr. Salvatore Chiantia
- Plant Ecology & Nature Conservation
Prof. Dr. Florian Jeltsch
Professors affiliated in the Institute of Biochemistry and Biology
Professors affiliated in the Institute of Biochemistry and Biology
- Biochemistry of Nutrition
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Paul Püschel
- Mathematical Modelling and Systems Biology
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Huisinga
- Biological Physics
Prof. Dr. Carsten Beta
- Theory und Bio-Systems
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Lipowsky, MPI für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung
Endowed Professorships
- Immune Technology
Prof. Dr. Katja Hanack
Tenure track professorships and junior professorships
Associated Professors
- Biopolymer-Analytics
Apl. Prof. Dr. Jörg Fettke
- Bioinformatics (MPI-MP)
Apl. Prof. Dr. Dirk Walther
- Microscopy
Apl. Prof. Dr. Otto Baumann
- Signaltransduction
Apl. Prof. Dr. Ria Baumgrass (German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin)
- Vegetation Ecology
Apl. Prof. Dr. Monika Wulf (Leibniz-Centre for Agrolandscape research, ZALF)
Honorary Professors
- Organelle Biology, Biotechnology and Molecular Ecophysiology
Prof. Dr. Ralph Bock, MPI of Molecular Plant Physiology
- Molecular Physiology
Prof. Dr. Lothar Willmitzer, MPI of Molecular Plant Physiology
- Analytical Biochemistry
Prof. Dr. Frieder Scheller
Mutually Appointed Professors
- Geomikrobiology Prof. Dr. Dirk Wagner, GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
Prof. Dr. Dirk Wagner, GFZ Helmholtz Zentrum Potsdam
- Molecular Bioanalytics and Bioelectronics
Prof. Dr. Frank Bier, appointed with the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
- Plant Nutritional Genomics
Prof. Dr. Phillip A. Wigge, appointed with the Leibniz-Institute for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ)
- Moleculare Ecology
- Prof. Dr. Joerns Fickel, jointly appointed with the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Berlin
- Theoretical Ecology
Prof. Dr. Volker Grimm, jointly appointed with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig
- Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Functional Biodiversity
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Grossart, jointly appointed with the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin
- Molecular Environmental Microbiology
JunProf. Dr. Susanne Liebner, jointly appointed with GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam
Junior Research Groups
- Cell Biology of Plant Water Transport
Dr. René Schneider, Emmy-Noether Research Group - Plant Physiology
- Movement Ecology - Methods in Ecology
Dr. Ulrike Schlägel, Emmy-Noether Research Group - Plant ecology and nature conservation
Mutually appointed Professuren
- Geomicrobiology
- Prof. Dr. Dirk Wagner, GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
- Molecular Bioanalytic and Bioelektronic
- Prof. Dr. Frank Bier, jointly appointed with the Fraunhofer Society
- Molecular Ecology
- Prof. Dr. Joerns Fickel, jointly appointed with the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Berlin
- Theoretical Ecology
- Prof. Dr. Volker Grimm, jointly appointed with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig
- Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Functional Biodiversity
- Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Grossart, jointly appointed with the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin
- Molecular Environmental Microbiology
- JunProf. Dr. Susanne Liebner, jointly appointed with GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam