Robert Huber

Robert Huber ( born February 20, 1937 in Munich) is a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

He studied his doctorate and habilitation in chemistry at the Technical University Munich. From 1971 to March 2005 he was a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried near Munich. Since 1976 he is also an adjunct professor at the Technical University Munich.

He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1988 together with Johann Deisenhofer and Hartmut Michel " for the exploration of three-dimensional structure of the photosynthetic reaction center in a purple bacterium ." Robert Huber has a decisive influence on his work to experimental and theoretical methods of X-ray crystallography of proteins, the understanding of photosynthesis.

Robert Huber passes as Director Emeritus of the Group for Structural Research at the MPI of Biochemistry. In addition, he occupied several visiting professorships at universities in Wales, Singapore, Germany and Spain. As co-founder of the biotech company Proteros (1997) and SuppreMol (2005) he takes in both companies a consultative functions.

Since 1988, Huber is a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

In 1990 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, since 2008 National Academy of Sciences elected.

Since 2005, Robert Huber research as a visiting professor at the Centre for Medical Biotechnology of the University of Duisburg -Essen.

Since the winter semester 2007/ 08 Robert Huber is a member of the University Council of the University of Bayreuth.

Since July 2011, Robert Huber is active in the Strategy Board of the Hamburg School of Food Science.