Prof. Dr. Peter Güntert

Name Peter Güntert Date of birth March 29, 1964 Place of birth Schaffhausen, Switzerland Citizenships Switzerland, Germany Marital status Married Languages German, English, French (Spanish, Japanese) Work address Institute of Biophysical Chemistry J. W. Goethe-University Frankfurt Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, Room N220/105 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Phone: +49-69-798 29621 Fax: +49-69-798 29632 Email: guentert@em.uni-frankfurt.de WWW: http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/

Education

• 1998 Habilitation, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 1993 Ph.D., ETH Zürich, Switzerland, advisors: K. Wüthrich, W. F. van Gunsteren
• 1987 M.Sc. (Diploma in physics), ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Professional positions

• 2007– Professor, Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• 2007– Senior Fellow, Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• 2007– Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
• 2006–2007 Team Leader, NMR Structure Analysis Methodology Team, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan
• 2005–2007 Team Leader, NMR Structure Analysis Methodology Research Team, RIKEN Structural Genomics/Proteomics Initiative, Japan
• 2002–2007 Principal Investigator, Tatsuo Miyazawa Memorial Program, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan
• 2002–2006 Senior Research Scientist, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan
• 1998–2002 Lecturer (Privatdozent), Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 1996–1998 Senior researcher (Oberassistent), Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 1993–1995 Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 1988–1993 Predoctoral researcher, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 1986 High-school teacher for mathematics and computer science, Kantonsschule Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Major research interest

Computation methods to study biomolecular systems, in particular by NMR.

Honors

• 2007 Lichtenberg Professorship, Volkswagen Foundation
• 1997 ETH-Tokyo Institute of Technology Award
• 1993 Medal and Prize for Ph.D. thesis, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 1987 Medal and Prize for M.Sc. (Diploma) thesis, ETH Zürich, Switzerland