Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Rolf Daniel

Address

  Georg-August University of Göttingen
  Institute of Microbiology and Genetics
  Department of Genomic and Applied Microbiology
  Grisebachstr. 8, 37077 Göttingen, Germany

Office

  Room: 0.128
  Tel: ++49 (0)551 39 23827
  Fax: ++49 (0)551 39 24619
  E-Mail: rdaniel(at)gwdg.de

Academic Education

 
Habilitation 2003 (venia legendi Microbiology) Georg-August University of Göttingen
Dissertation 1994 Dr. rer.nat. (Biology, Microbiology) Georg-August University of Göttingen
Diploma Biology 1991 (examination subjects: Microbiology, Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry) Georg-August University of Göttingen

Professional Experience

2019 - present Dean, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August University Göttingen
2012 - present Professor (W3), Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Head of Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Georg-August University Göttingen
2018 - 2019 Research Dean, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August University Göttingen
2012 - 2016 Director of Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University Göttingen
2008 - 2012 Acting Director of the Department of Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Head of the Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Georg-August University Göttingen
1996 - 2008 Group Leader, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University Göttingen
1995 - 1996 Postdoc (DFG research stipend), University of California (Berkeley, USA)
1994 - 1995 Postdoc, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University Göttingen
   

Community Service, Honors and Awards

 
2008 - present Chair of the European Conference on Prokaryotic Genomics (ProkaGENOMICS 2020(+1); ProkaGENOMICS 2017; ProkaGENOMICS 2015; ProkaGENOMICS 2011; ProkaGENOMICS 2009;)
2018 1. Platz Norddeutscher Wissenschaftspreis 2018
(Northern German Science Award)
2016 - 2020 Speaker of the section "Functional Genomics" of the German Association for General and Applied Microbiology
2014 - 2019 Speaker of the Master programme Microbiology and Biochemistry
2010 / 2016 Editor of “Metagenomics: Methods and Protocols” in the series Methods in Molecular Biology Vol. 668, Humana Press, Springer Verlag
2014 - present Academic Editor Plos ONE
2013 - present Speaker "North German Center of Microbial Genomics" (Norddeutsches Zentrum für Mikrobielle Genomforschung, NZMG)
2013 Norddeutscher Wissenschaftspreis (Northern German Science Award)
2012 - present Advisory Board Member of "Greifswald Center for Functional Genomics of Microbes"
2011 - 2016 Editorial Board Member of Biotechnology Letters
2010 - 2014 Coordinator of the GenoMik-Transfer network of the BMBF
2007 - present Editorial Board Member of Applied and Environmental Microbiology
1995 Research Stipend of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Science Foundation)
1994 PhD thesis award of the Biology Faculty, Georg-August University Göttingen