Walter Neupert - Curriculum vitae#

• Ph.D. Biochemistry, 1968, University of Munich
• M.D. 1970, University of Munich

• 2008 - present: Max Planck Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried/Munich
• 1983 - present: Professor and Chair, Adolf-Butenandt-Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of Munich
• 1979 - 1983 Professor, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
• 1977 - 1979 Associate Professor, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
• 1972 - 1977 Privatdozent, Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University of Munich
• 1969 - 1972 Assistant Professor, Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University of Munich

• German Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) (President 1995-1997, Vice-President 1997- 1999)
• German Society of Chemistry
• German Society of Cell Biology
• American Society for Cell Biology
• The Protein Society
• Cell Stress Society International
• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Ärztlicher Verein München (Medical Society Munich)

• Heinrich-Wieland-Prize 1993
• Feldberg-Foundation Prize 1996
• Gairdner-Foundation Prize 1998
• Schleiden-Medal of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1999)
• Otto Warburg-Medal of the German Society for
• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2000)
• E.B. Wilson Award of the American Society for Cell Biology (2000)
• Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) 1. Cl. of the Federal Republic of Germany (2000)
• Bayerischer Verdienstorden (Bavarian Cross of Merit) of the Government of Bavaria (2003)
• Felix-Wankel-Tierschutz-Forschungspreis 2003 (Felix-Wankel-Animal Protection Prize)
• Bayerischer Maximiliansorden für Wissenschaft und Kunst (2008)
• Ferdinand-Springer Lecturer FEBS 1991
• Bernard Axelrod Lecturership in Biochemistry 1992
• E.C. Slater Lecturer 1997
• Fawcett Lecture, Harvard University 2007
• Otto-Warburg-Lecture, University of Bayreuth, 2010
• Academia Europaea
• Bavarian Academy of Sciences
• German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• Corresponding Member of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Academy of Sciences 1996
• Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 1999
• Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2005)
• European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
• EMBO Council Member (1996 – 1998)
• Elected Member of the American Society for Microbiology (2003)
• Chairman of the European Molecular Biology Council (1997- 2000)
• Member of the Senate and Council of the German Research Society (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1996-2002)
• Chairman of the Nominating Committee of the
• International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB; 1997-2000)
• Member of the Permanent Workforce of the Max-Planck-Society (1999 - )
• Vice-Dean (2000 - 2007) and Dean of Research (2002 – 2007) of the Medical Faculty, Ludwigs-Maximilians-University Munich
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie Frankfurt (2001 - 2009)
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Poznan, Poland (2002 - )
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute für Genetics, University of Cologne (2002 - )
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology und Genetics, Dresden (2002 - )
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Membrane Proteomics (CMP) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt (2002 - )
• Member of the COE Council (Center of Excellence of the Japanese Government), Kyushu, Japan (2003 - )
• Member of the Nomination Committee for the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Program of the German Research Society (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) (2003 - 2008)
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Biochemiezentrum (BZH), University of Heidelberg (2003 - )
• Member of the Working Group of FEBS on the European Research Area (ERA) (2003 - )
• Member of the Assessment Committee of the Academy Professorship Programme of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003 - )
• President of the Feldberg-Foundation, London (2006-2008)
• Chairman of the EMBO Evaluation Committee of the Spanish Life Science Strategy (2005)
• Member of the Evaluation Committee of the German-
• Israeli-Project Cooperation (DIP) (2005 -)
• Chairman of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation (2009 - )

• Editor of Journal of Biochemistry (Japan) (2006-)
• Editorial Board of BMC Cell Biology (2004 - )
• Highlight Advisory Panel Member of Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2001 - 2005)
• Advisory Board of The EMBO Journal (2001 - )
• Editor in Chief of EMBO Reports (1999-2000)
• Advisory Board of EMBO Reports (2000 - )
• Editor in Chief of The EMBO Journal (1998-2000)
• Editorial Board of The Journal of Biological Chemistry (1998-2000)
• Editorial Board of the European Journal of Cell Biology (1995 - 2004)
• Editorial Board of Cell Stress and Chaperones (1995- 2002)
• Monitoring Editor of The Journal of Cell Biology (1989- 1995)
• Managing Editor of the European Journal of Biochemistry (1988-1991)
• Editorial Board of Cell (1988 -1990)
• Editorial Board of The EMBO Journal (1986-1989)
• Editorial Board of Biological Chemistry (1987-1993)
• Editorial Board of Seminars in Cell Biology (1989-1992)
• Editorial Board of Protein Science (1990-1993)

• Intracellular protein traffic
• Folding and assembly of proteins
• Molecular chaperones
• ATP-dependent proteases in mitochondria
• Structure and function of membrane proteins
• Morphology, fusion and fission of mitochondria
• Motility and inheritance of mitochondria
• Mitochondrial genomics and proteomics
• Mitochondrial diseases