Karl Helmut Grubmüller, Prof. Dr. rer. nat.

31.7.1965

Born in Munich, Germany
Father: Karl Heinz Grubmüller
Mother: Emma Grubmüller (Lingl)

1972-1985

Primary school & High school (`Gymnasium'), Munich

1985-1990

Study of Physics at the Technical University of Munich;
Diploma Thesis (advisor: Prof. Klaus Schulten):
Dynamics Simulation of Very Large Macromolecules with a Parallel Computer

1990/1991

Two research visits at the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign, Beckman Institute, Theoretical Biophysics Group, Prof. Klaus Schulten

1991-1993

PhD student at the Technical University of Munich (advisor: Prof. Paul Tavan);
PhD Thesis: Molecular Dynamics of Proteins at Long Time Scales

1994-1998

Research Assistant in the Theoretical Biophysics group (headed by Prof. Paul Tavan)
at the Institute for BioMolecular Optics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich

1997

Research visit (EMBO fellow) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Prof. Kurt Wüthrich

1998-2003

Head of the Theoretical Molecular Biophysics Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany

2003

Associate Professor for Biomolecular Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

2003-

Director, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
Head of the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Department

2005-

Honorary Professor for Physics at the University of Göttingen