Patrick Cramer PhD

Dr. Patrick Cramer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and studied chemistry at the Universities of Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Bristol, and Cambridge from 1989 until 1995. Cramer carried out his Ph.D. research at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Grenoble, France, and obtain his degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1998.

From 1999 until 2001 Patrick Cramer worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of the later Nobel Prize laureate Roger D. Kornberg at Stanford University, USA. Patrick Cramer took up a tenure-track professorship in biochemistry at the University of Munich in 2001. There he was appointed full professor in 2004 and served as Director of the Gene Center Munich from 2004 to 2013. Since 2014 Patrick Cramer has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. Cramer served as Chair of EMBL Council from 2016 to 2019.