Prof. Dr. Robert Tampé

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Goethe University Frankfurt
Professor of Biochemistry, Director
Institute of Biochemistry, Biocenter
Max-von-Laue-Str. 9
60438 Frankfurt/M.

tampe@em.uni-frankfurt.de
phone +49-69-798 29475
fax +49-69-798 29495
www.biochem.uni-frankfurt.de

Positions & Academic Training

2001- present	Full Professor and Director, Institute of Biochemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt
1998 - 2001	Full Professor and Director, Physiological Chemistry, Medicine, University Marburg
1996 - 1998	Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, TU Munich
1996	Habilitation in Biochemistry, TU Munich
1992 - 1998	Independent Max Planck Research Group Leader, MPI of Biochemistry, Martinsried
1992 - 1998	Research Group Leader, Department of Biophysics, TU Munich
1990 - 1991	Max Kade Fellow, Stanford University (with Harden M. McConnell), USA
1987 - 1989	PhD in Biochemistry with highest honors (summa cum laude), TU Darmstadt
1981 - 1987	Diploma in Chemistry with highest honors (summa cum laude), TU Darmstadt

Honors & Awards

2024 -	2nd ERC Advanced Grant, ERC Investigator, Life Sciences, European Research Council
2023 - 2024	Schaefer Research Award and Visiting Professor, Columbia University, New York, USA
2019	Director, ISMB and Head of Joint Research Departments, UCL and Birkbeck College London (gratefully declined)
2019	Elected EMBO Member, Structural Biology, Membrane/Transport, Immunology
2018	Reinhart Koselleck Project Award, German Research Foundation (DFG)
2017	ERC Investigator, Advanced Grant, Life Sciences (LS1), European Research Council
2017 - present	Appointed Honorary Visiting Fellow, Merton College, University of Oxford, UK
2017 - 2018	Visiting Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK
2010 - present	Excellence Award in Teaching (3x), Goethe University Frankfurt
2010 - present	Honorary Professorship, iCeCM, Kyoto University, Japan
2009 - 2010	Adjunct Professor, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), USA
1996 - 1998	Heisenberg Fellow, German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany
1989 - 1991	Postdoctoral Fellowship of DFG and Max Kade Foundation, New York, USA
1987 - 1989	PhD Fellowship, awarded by the Chemical Industry (FCI), Germany
1985	Anton Keller Prize in Chemistry, Germany
1984 - 1987	Fellow, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Germany
1983 - 1987	Fellow, Cusanuswerk, Germany

Academic Leadership (selection)

2022 - present	Head of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC 1507) Membrane Protein Assemblies, Machineries, and Supercomplexes
2008 - 2020	Head of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC 807) Membrane Transport
2007 - 2019	Cofounder, Board of Directors and PI, Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt (EXC 115)
2007 - 2010	Spokesperson, Biomembranes, German Society Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM)
2005 - 2010	Head of the European Membrane Biology Network (EMBN-Train)
2003 - 2007	Head of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC 628) Membrane Proteomics
2001 - 2016	Founder and Member of Board of Directors, Center for Membrane Proteomics (CMP)

Trusts & Editorial Boards

2020 - present	Board Member, EMBO Fellowships
2018 - 2023	Chair, ERC Advanced Grants, Life Sciences, European Research Council (ERC)
2016 - 2023	Panel Member, Life Sciences, ERC Advanced Grants, ERC
2015 - 2016	Chair, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
2014 - present	Trustee, German Research Foundation (DFG), Goethe University Frankfurt
2010 - present	Chair, Paul-Ehrlich Young Investigator Award, Paul Ehrlich Foundation
2008 - 2011	Review Board Member, Basic Research in Biology and Medicine, DFG
2009	Review Board Member, Excellence Initiative, Germany
2003 - 2008	Editorial Board, The Journal of Biological Chemistry (ASBMB)
2001 - 2003	Editor of Faculty 1000

Research Interests

Structure and mechanism of membrane proteins, macromolecular assemblies, molecular machines, intracellular transport and maturation of proteins, ribosome recycling and mRNA surveillance, chemical biology, live-cell protein labeling techniques, nanobiotechnology.