Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr. Eric Westhof
Name: Eric Westhof Born: 25 July 1948, Uccle, Belgium
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, Germany
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 Feodor Lynen 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 Jacques MONOD Prize
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