Jörg Hacker

Presidente della Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e.V. - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften 

- s.s. 26 maggio 2016 
Academic and professional career since 2010 President of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - German National Academy of Sciences, Halle (Saale)
2008 - 2010 President of the Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin
2006 Visiting Professor at the Sackler Institute for Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2000, 2005 Research visits at the Institute Pasteur, Paris
1993 - 2008 Professor (C4) and Head of the Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, University of W?urg
1988 - 1993 Professor (C3) for Microbiology, University of W?urg
1980 - 1988 Research Assistant at the Department of Microbiology, W?urg
1979 PhD (Biology), Martin-Luther-University of Halle (Saale)
1970 - 1974 Studies in Biology, Martin-Luther-University of Halle (Saale)
Other offers (declined)
2002 Professor for Microbiology, University of Jena, together with Head of Hans-Kn?Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology
2001 Professor for Medical Microbiology, University of New South Wales (Australia)
1992 Professor for Microbiology, University of T?gen
1992 Professor for Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, together with Head of Bernhardt-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine
1987 Professor for Genetics, University of Marburg
1986 Professor for Microbiology, University of Erlangen
Awards and prizes
2014 Honorary Citizenship Grevesm?n/Germany
2012 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
2010 Honorary Professorship at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald
2009 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
2009 Honorary Senator of the University of W?urg
2008 Prize of the Arthur-Burkhardt-Foundation for Promotion of Science
2008 Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Science Award
2006 Andr?woff-Award of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS)
2001 Carus-Medal of the Leopoldina and Carus-Prize of the City Schweinfurt
1994 Main prize of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM)
1992 University medal of the University of Helsinki, Finland
1988 Academy prize of the Academy of Sciences at G?ngen
1985 Young scientist award of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology
Honorary degrees
2012 Honorary Doctorate (Dr. phil. h.c.) awarded by the University of Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 Honorary Doctorate (Dr. of science h. c.) awarded by the University of Hyderabad, India
2004 Honorary Doctorate (Dr. med. h. c.) awarded by the University of P?, Hungary
2002 Honorary Doctorate (Dr. med. h. c.) awarded by the University of Umea, Sweden
Honorary memberships
2012 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg
2011 Foreign Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology Berlin and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society
2010 Honorary member of the Kitasato Institute, Tokyo, Japan
2010 Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering - acatech
2010 Member of the Indian National Science Academy, Delhi
2010 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2010 Member of the Academia Europaea, London
2009 Member of the European Academy of Microbiology
2007 Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2006 Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich
2005 Fellow Sackler Institute for Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2004 Member of the American Academy for Microbiology (AAM)
2003 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
2003 Member of the Academy of Sciences at G?ngen
1998 Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle (Saale)
1995 Honorary Member of the Hungarian Society for Microbiology
Current functions in scientific societies and committees
since 2014 Member in the Foundation Board of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation
since 2014 Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH)
since 2013 Member in the UN Scientific Advisory Board appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
since 2013 Member in the Scientific Advisory Board, W?urg University
since 2013 Member in the Scientific Advisory Committee, Center for Environment, Health and Aging (CEREHA), Kiryat-Shmona/Israel
since 2012 Member in the Scientific Advisory Board of the Robert-Koch-Institute
since 2012 Member in the Scientific Advisory Board, Freie Universit?Berlin
since 2012 Chairman of the Board of Trustees, German Science Journalists' Association
since 2011 Member in the Foundation Board of the Arthur-Burckhardt-Foundation (Chairman since 2014)
since 2011 Member in the Scientific Advisory Board, German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin (DRFZ)
since 2010 Member of the Committee of the Excellence Initiative
since 2010 Member of the Innovation Dialog of the Chancellor of Germany
since 2006 Member in the University Council of the University Marburg
since 2005 Member in the Scientific Advisory Board of the Umea Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR) at the University of Umea, Sweden
since 2004 Member in the Panel of the Thuringian Research Prize
since 1998 Member in the Scientific Advisory Board of the Robert-Koch-Foundation
Past functions in scientific societies and committees
2011 Member of the Ethics Commission "Safe Energy Supply" of the Chancellor of Germany
2010-2013 Member of the Industry-Science Research Alliance "Health" of the Federal Government of Germany
2009 - 2011 Member in the Board of Trustees of the Max-Planck-Institute for Infectious Biology in Berlin
2008 - 2015 Member in the Foundation Board of the Paul-Ehrlich-Foundation
2007 - 2015 Member in the Scientific Council of the Institute Pasteur, Paris, France
2007 - 2010 Member in the Senate of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle (Saale)
2005 - 2013 Member in the Supervisory Board of the Helmholtz-Centre for Infectious Research mbH (HZI), Brunswick
2004-2013 Member in the Scientific Advisory Commitee of the Helmholtz-Centre for Infectious Research mbH (HZI), Brunswick
2003 - 2009 Vice President of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2000 - 2003 Reviewer of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
1998 - 1999 President of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology
1996 - 2007 Member in the Lynen Panel of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation
Memberships in editorial boards
since 2006 Faculty of 1000
2003 - 2007 Infection and Immunity
2000 - 2014 International Journal of Medical Microbiology
since 2000 Trends in Microbiology
since 2006 Current opinion in Microbiology
1998 - 2002 FEMS Microbiological Letters
1998 - 2002 FEMS Microbiological Reviews
2003 - 2009 Environmental Microbiology
Project coordination, membership in collaborative research projects (selection)
since 2010 Member in the German-Israeli project cooperation (DIP)
2007 - 2012 Speaker of the project area „E. coli" in the network ERA-NET PathoGenoMics (European cooperation and coordination of genome sequencing und functional genome research on human pathogen microorganisms)
2006 - 2010 Member and vice speaker of the Transregio collaborative research centre 34 „Pathophysiology at Staphylococci ", Universities Greifswald, T?gen and W?urg
2005 - 2010 Coordinator of the EU-Program EuroPathoGenomics (6. Framework Program of the EU, „Network of Excellence")
2004 - 2015 Member in the collaborative research centre 630 of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2001 - 2009 Co-coordinator of the BMBF-Program PathoGenoMik and PathoGenoMik Plus