Prof. Dr. Thomas Schweder
| 1964 | born in Rostock (Germany) |
| 1985 - 1990 | study of Biology at the EMA-University of Greifswald |
| 1990 | Diploma work “Investigation of plasmid stability of different strong expression systems in the chemostate” under the supervision of PD Dr. Klaus Hofmann |
| 1996 - 1999 | PhD work “Construction and characterization of alternative biological containment systems for Escherichia coli” under the supervision of Professor Dr. Michael Hecker (Institute of Microbiology, EMA-University, Greifswald) |
| 1994 | Dissertation |
| 1994 - 1995 | Postdoctoral work at the Laboratory of Professor Dr. A.C. Matin, Medical School, Stanford - University, California, USA |
| since 1998 | Head of the enzyme research group of the Institute of Marine Biotechnology (IMaB, Greifswald) |
| 1995-2001 | Scientific assistant at the Institute of Microbiology at the EMA-University Greifswald |
| 2001 | Habilitation in the field of Biotechnology |
| since 2001 | Head of the Institute of Marine Biotechnology (IMaB, Greifswald) |
| 2001-2004 | Head of the research group “Molecular Biotechnology” at the Institute of Microbiology of the EMA-University Greifswald |
| since 2004 | Professor for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald |
| main topics of research: | Cold-adapted enzymes, Functional genomics of the marine endosymbiont of the tubeworm Riftia pachyptila, Construction of cold-active bacterial expression systems, Functional genomics of the industrial bacterial hosts Bacillus subtilis and B. licheniformis, Development of DNA- and protein-chips for at-line monitoring of bioprocesses |
| awards and fellowships: | Research student of the country Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 1990-1991 Fellow of the DECHEMA 1991-1993 Scientific-Fellow of the „Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft“ 1994-1995 |