Peter Seeberger's Biography

Peter Seeberger, Managing Director, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Professor Freie Universität Berlin

Peter H. Seeberger studied chemistry in Erlangen (Germany) and completed a PhD in biochemistry in Boulder (USA). After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Research in New York he advanced to tenured Firmenich Associate Professor of Chemistry at MIT. After six years as Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich he assumed positions as Director at the Max-Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam and Professor at the Free University of Berlin in 2009. In addition he serves as honorary Professor at the University of Potsdam. He is a member of the governing bodies of the Max-Planck Society and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. His research has been documented in over 480 peer-reviewed journal articles, four books, more than 40 patents, and more than 850 invited lectures. This work was recognized with more than 35 international awards. The research in the Seeberger laboratory has given rise to seven successful companies in the USA, Switzerland and Germany.