Wolfgang Hoyer PhD

Dr. Wolfgang Hoyer studied chemistry from 1995 to 2000 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, the University of York, UK, and the University of Zurich. In his doctoral thesis, Dr. Hoyer from 2000-2004 at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen the aggregation of the protein alpha-synuclein, which plays a key role in Parkinson's disease. During a postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Torleif Härd at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, he investigated interactions of the Alzheimer's protein amyloid-beta using structural biology methods. Since 2009 he has been head of a young research group at the Institute for Physical Biology (Prof. Dieter Willbold) at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and works at the Institute of Complex Systems: Structural Biochemistry (ICS-6) at Forschungszentrum Jülich. At the end of 2018, Wolfgang Hoyer was appointed junior professor for “Chemical Biology of Protein Aggregation” at the HHU.