Oliver Einsle

Biography

Oliver Einsle (born in 1970) studied biology in Konstanz (1996). He then became a member of the working group of Nobel Prize winner Robert Huber at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried, where he was awarded the title of Dr. in biochemistry and biophysics in 2000 rer. nat. was promoted. His dissertation was awarded the doctorate prize of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM) and the Byk Prize of the Herbert von Quandt Foundation of Altana AG. After another year of research in Martinsried, he moved to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, USA, where he had the opportunity to work with Douglas Rees on the enzyme nitrogenase. In 2003, he was appointed junior professor for protein crystallography at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, where he subsequently built a research group focusing on membrane proteins and metalloproteins. Oliver Einsle was appointed EMBO Young Investigator in 2005 and was appointed to the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg in 2007, where he took up the Chair of Biochemistry in the Faculty of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Geosciences in 2008. He is a member of the graduate school SGBM and associate member of the excellence cluster bioss.

Research Interest

The focus of his work is still on membrane transports and metal-containing redox enzymes, which chemically catalyze demanding reactions.