Biography:Petra Schwille

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Petra Schwille
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Petra Schwille (born 25 January 1968 in Sindelfingen[1]) is a German professor and a researcher in the area of biophysics. Since 2011, she has been a director of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany.[2][3] She is known for her ground-laying work in the field of fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy,[4][5] and numerous contributions on model membranes.[6] Her current research focuses around bottom-up approaches to building an artificial cell within a broader area of synthetic biology.[2][7] In 2010, Schwille received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.[8]

Education

Schwille graduated with a Diploma in physics from the University of Göttingen in 1993.[9] She worked toward her doctoral degree in physics at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, and received her degree from Technical University of Braunschweig in 1996, with a thesis on fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy.

Career

Schwille worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University in 1997, and returned to the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen to a research group leader position in 1999.[6] She became a professor of biophysics at TU Dresden in 2002.[8] In 2012, Schwille became the director of the research department "Cellular and Molecular Biophysics" at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany,[6] as well as an Honorary Professor in physics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.[9] She is also a chief co-coordinator of MaxSynBio, a research network of the Max Planck Society for synthetic biology.[10]

Schwille developed the "two-photon cross-correlation spectroscopy" method with which fundamental cellular processes can be explored.[11]

Schwille has been a member of the scientific Board of Trustees of the Heinrich Wieland Prize since 2011.[12]

Awards and honors

Awards

  • 2001: Lecturer award by the German Chemical Industry Fund[3]
  • 2003: Young Investigator Award for Biotechnology of the Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Foundation[3]
  • 2004: Philip Morris Research Prize[13]
  • 2010: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG)[8]
  • 2011: Braunschweig Research Prize[11][14]
  • 2013: Suffrage Science Award, MRC-CSC, London[3]
  • 2018: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art[3]
  • 2021: Otto Warburg Medal[15]

Memberships and fellowships

  • 2005: Max-Planck-Fellow of the MPI for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics[3]
  • 2010: Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina[16]
  • 2011: Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)[17][18]
  • 2013: Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities[19]
  • 2013: Member of EMBO[3][20]
  • 2015: Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society[21]
  • 2017: Fellow of the Biophysical Society[22]
  • 2018: Member of the Academia Europaea[23]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Schwille, Petra" (in en). https://www.mpg.de/5864970/biochemie_wissM6. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Petra Schwille". https://www.biochem.mpg.de/schwille. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "Curriculum Vitae" (in en). https://www.biochem.mpg.de/schwille/cv. 
  4. ↑ Schwille, P.; Meyer-Almes, F. J.; Rigler, R. (1 April 1997). "Dual-color fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy for multicomponent diffusional analysis in solution" (in English). Biophysical Journal 72 (4): 1878–1886. doi:10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78833-7. ISSN 0006-3495. PMID 9083691. Bibcode: 1997BpJ....72.1878S. 
  5. ↑ Schwille, Petra; Haupts, Ulrich; Maiti, Sudipta; Webb, Watt W. (1999). "Molecular Dynamics in Living Cells Observed by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy with One- and Two-Photon Excitation". Biophysical Journal 77 (4): 2251–2265. doi:10.1016/s0006-3495(99)77065-7. ISSN 0006-3495. PMID 10512844. Bibcode: 1999BpJ....77.2251S. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Powell, Kendall (11 May 2015). "Petra Schwille: Taking a minimalist approach to membranes" (in en). J Cell Biol 209 (3): 320–321. doi:10.1083/jcb.2093pi. ISSN 0021-9525. PMID 25963813. 
  7. ↑ Schwille, Petra; Spatz, Joachim; Landfester, Katharina; Bodenschatz, Eberhard; Herminghaus, Stephan; Sourjik, Victor; Erb, Tobias J.; Bastiaens, Philippe et al. (2018). "MaxSynBio: Avenues Towards Creating Cells from the Bottom Up" (in en). Angewandte Chemie International Edition 57 (41): 13382–13392. doi:10.1002/anie.201802288. ISSN 1521-3773. PMID 29749673. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.201802288. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2010 – Prof. Dr. Petra Schwille". https://www.dfg.de/en/funded_projects/prizewinners/leibniz_prize/2010/schwille/index.html. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "DLD Conference Speaker: Petra Schwille". https://dld-media.com/users/petra-schwille. 
  10. ↑ "Schwille Group" (in en). https://www.maxsynbio.mpg.de/6233/schwille_group. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Petra Schwille receives Braunschweig Research Prize 2011". https://www.braunschweig.de/politik_verwaltung/fb_institutionen/staedtische_gesellschaften/bsmportal/presseinfos/bsm_pm_preisverleihung_bfp_2011_englisch.php. 
  12. ↑ "Heinrich Wieland Prize – Professor Dr. Petra Schwille". https://www.heinrich-wieland-prize.de/50th-anniversary/meet-the-laureates/laureates/articles/prof-petra-schwille.html. 
  13. ↑ "Philip Morris Research Prize 2004 for Springer authors" (in en). https://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/pressreleases?SGWID=0-11002-6-803573-0. 
  14. ↑ "Laureate 2011". https://www.braunschweig.de/english/business_science_education/research-prize/laureate_2011_en.php. 
  15. ↑ "Max Planck Director Petra Schwille receives Otto Warburg Medal". 15 March 2022. https://www.biochem.mpg.de/max-planck-director-petra-schwille-receives-otto-warburg-medal. 
  16. ↑ New Members of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina and the Berlin–Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Academy / Prize of the Berlin–Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities: H. Cölfen / Dr. Hermann Schnell Fellowship: F. H. Schacher. doi:10.1002/anie.201308236. 
  17. ↑ "DLD Conference Speaker: Petra Schwille". https://dld-media.com/users/petra-schwille. 
  18. ↑ "Petra Schwille, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie – acatech Member". https://en.acatech.de/person/petra-schwille-max-planck-institut-fuer-biochemie/. 
  19. ↑ "Petra Schwille – Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities". http://www.bbaw.de/en/academy/members/11031. 
  20. ↑ "Find people in the EMBO Communities". https://people.embo.org/profile/petra-schwille. 
  21. ↑ "RMS Honorary Fellows". https://www.rms.org.uk/membership/honorary-fellows.html. 
  22. ↑ "Biophysical Society – Society Awards". https://www.biophysics.org/awards-funding/society-awards. 
  23. ↑ "Academy of Europe: Schwille Petra". https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Schwille_Petra. 

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