Oliver Einsle PhD

Oliver Einsle (b. 1970) studied Biology in Konstanz, Germany, and then moved to the Max- Planck-Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, to work with Robert Huber and Peter Kroneck on cytochrome c nitrite reductase. In 2001 he joined the laboratory of Douglas Rees at Caltech, USA, to study nitrogenase, and in 2003 he was appointed junior professor for protein crystallography in Göttingen, Germany. Since 2008 he is full professor of Biochemistry in Freiburg, Germany, and director of the Institute of Biochemistry in the faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy. His group has made seminal contributions to the structural and functional characterization of various metalloproteins, including nitrogenase and nitrous oxide reductase, but also multiheme cytochromes c. A second line of research is centered on the study of integral membrane proteins, in particular bacterial transporters and channels