Peter Hegemann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Peter Hegemann

German biophysicist

Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1954

Place of Birth: Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Profession: professor, university teacher, biochemist, biophysicist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Peter Hegemann (born 11 December 1954 in Münster, West Germany) is Professor and Head of the Department for Biophysics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
He studied chemistry in Münster and Munich and earned his PhD 1984 in Munich with an investigation into the structure and function of halorhodopsin, a light-driven chloride pump in Halobacterium halobium.
As a postdoc, he worked in the research groups of Dieter Oesterhelt (1984 to 1985) and with Kenneth W.
Foster at Syracuse University (1985 to 1986).
In 1986, he started a research group in the Department of Membrane Biochemistry at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry in Frankfurt, Germany.
He became professor at the University of Regensburg and was appointed full professor at the Humboldt-University of Berlin in 2004.