!!Walter Neupert - Curriculum vitae
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__Education:__	
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*Ph.D. Biochemistry, 1968, University of Munich
*M.D. 1970, University of Munich
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__Professional Experience:
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*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
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__Professional Societies:__	
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*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)
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__Honors and Awards:__
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*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 - )
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__Editorial Activities:__	
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*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)
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__Areas of Scientific Activities:__
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Structure and biogenesis of cell organelles, in particular of mitochondria:
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*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