Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr. Eric Westhof

Name: Eric Westhof Born: 25 July 1948, Uccle,

Academic and Professional Carrer since 1988 Professor of Structural Biochemistry at the University of Strasbourg, France since 2009 Vice President for Research and Doctoral Studies of the University of Strasbourg,

France

2007 - 2008 Vice President for Research and Doctoral Studies of the University Louis Pasteur, France

2006 Director of the CNRS Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC) since 2005 Director of the CNRS Unit “Architecture and Reactivity of RNA” since 1988 Professor of Structural Biochemistry at the University Louis Pasteur of

Strasbourg, France; Supervisor for the Biophysics and Structural Biology program at the

Faculty of Biology of the University Louis Pasteur, France

1984 Chargé de recherches (CR1) of the CNRS at the IBMC

1981 EMBO Fellowship, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IBMC) of the Centre

National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Strasbourg, France

1977 FULBRIGHT-HAYS Research Fellow and Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry,

University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina www.leopoldina.org 1 1974 Ph.D., Liège University, Belgium

1971 EURATOM Ph.D. Fellowship, Regensburg University,

1971 Licence en Sciences Physiques, Master in Physics, Liège University, Belgium

Honours and Awarded Memberships (Selection)

2012 Edmond de Rothschild Lecture, IBPC, Paris, France

2011 Member of the French Academy of Sciences

2011 Lecture, Mosbach, Germany

2007 Charles-Léopold MAYER Prize of the French Academy of Sciences

2005 - 2008 Human Frontier Science Program

2004 - 2009 President, Société française de Biochimie et de Biologie Moléculaire, member of FEBS,

Comité National de Biochimie, French Academy of Sciences, member of IUMB

2004 Fellow of the Institute of Physics, London, UK since 2003 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Interdisciplinary

Scientific Computing Heidelberg University, Germany

2002 - 2008 European Union

2002 - 2006 Scientific council of the University Louis Pasteur, France since 2002 Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Institute of Bioorganic

Chemitry, Poznan, Polish Academy of Sciences since 2002 Scientific council of the Biology Department of the Ecole normale supérieure

Paris, France

2002 - 2008 Member and Chair of the EMBO Publications Committee

2001 - 2002 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Visiting Professor, Rutgers University, USA

2001 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

2001 Member of the Academia Europaea

Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina www.leopoldina.org 2 2000 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

2000 - 2001 Director for RNA Society

1997 - 2003 Scientific Advisory Board of Ribotargets, Cambridge, UK

1999 - 2003 Scientific Advisory Board of Nascacell, Munich, Germany

1999 Corresponding Member of the French Academy of Sciences

1998 Member of the EMBO

1995 Structural Biochemistry Chair of the Institut Universitaire de France

1992 Prize

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