Kai Simons
Director
Board of Director
CBG
Germany
Biography
Kai Simons was born on 24 May 1938 in Helsinki, Finland. In 1964, he graduated from the University of Helsinki as Medical Doctor, followed by postdoctoral work at the Rockefeller University in New York, USA. Back at the University of Helsinki, he held two professorships in the area of Biochemistry between 1971 - 1979 next to a position as Investigator at the Finnish Medical Research Council from 1967-1975. Kai Simons joined the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany in 1975 as a research group leader, where he also coordinated the Cell Biology Programme from 1982-1998. He is one of the founding directors of the MPI-CBG. In 2006, he became Director Emeritus.
Research Interest
Cell Biology, Molecular Biology
