Profile of Georg Lipps

Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland und Head of the master programme Life Sciences

career:

Vordiplom (bachelor) in Biology (Universität of Münster, 1989)
Diplom (master) in Biochemistry (Universität of Witten-Herdecke, 1992)

Promotion (PhD) in Biochemistry in december 1994  at the University of Giessen,  "Expression, Purification and Characterisation of schistosomal Cathepsin B, an immunodiagnostic antigene of Bilharziosis“

Scientist at a medical diagnostic company 1995-97

Group Leader at the department of Biochemistry (University of Bayreuth) 1997-200

Habilitation in Biochemistry April 2004, „The plasmid pRN1 from the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus islandicus“

since July 2004 Assistant Professor at the department of biochemistry

Substitute Professor Biochemistry University of Bayreuth (2007-2008)

since May 2008 Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland und Head of the master programme Life Sciences

research:

biotechnological enzyme, directed evolution, replication, protein characterisation, protein expression

teaching: 

bioinformatics, (bio-)chemistry, synthetic biology, systems biology, supervision of BSc, MSc and PhD students

reviewer: 

national funding bodies: DFG and ANR, journals: Nucleic Acid Research, Molecular Microbiology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, FEBS Letters, Extremophiles, Archaea, Process Biochemistry, Enzyme and Microbial Technology, Research in Microbiology and Biochemical and Biophysical Archives, editor: Plasmids