Prof. Dr. Berenike Maier - Curriculum Vitae
Education and Professional Career
since 2026: associated RG at the Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMM)
2020-2025: PI at the Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC)
since 2011: W3 Professor of biophysics, University of Cologne
2004-2011: Associate professor of biophysics, University of Münster
2004: Emmy Noether junior research group leader, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
2001-2004: Emmy Noether postdoctoral fellow, Columbia University
2001: PhD, Technical University of Munich
1998-1999: Visiting researcher at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
1992-1998: Studies in physics (diploma), Technical University of Munich
Awards, Distinctions and Scientific Activities
since 2025: Elected member of commission C.6 (Biological Physics) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)
since 2024: Member of the scientific advisory board of the MPI for Terrestrical Microbiology
2020 - 2025: PI at the CMMC
since 2019: Editorial board member at Biofilms
2018 - 2021: Editorial board member at Scientific Reports
2018 - 2019: Founding director of Institute for Biological Physics
2015 - 2016: Head of Physics Department within the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Cologne
2013 - 2017: HFSP program grant
2007 - 2013: Co-editor at BioInterPhases