Professor Thomas Scheibel
"Processed structural proteins as new biomaterials"
Biography:
Thomas Scheibel is a full professor for Biomaterials at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He has published around 74 peer reviewed articles, 32 review articles, 15 book chapters and 14 patents, and edited two books, all cited about 3100 times. His h-index is 30. After studying biochemistry at the University of Regensburg, Germany, he graduated in 1994. He obtained his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1998 from the Institute of Biophysics and Physical Biochemistry at the University of Regensburg, Germany. After three years as a postdoc at the University of Chicago, Chicago USA, he was assistant professor (C1) at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and finished his habilitation in 2007. Since November 2007 he is chair of Biomaterials at the Universität Bayreuth, Germany. Amongst his awards are the “Junior Scientist Award of the Materials week” (2004), the “Communicator Award of the Promega GmbH” (2005), the “Innovation Award from the Bavarian Prime Minister” (2006), the Award “Innovation made by nature” of the German Federal ministry of science (2007), the “Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Medal” (2007), the “Karl-Heinz-Beckurts-Award” (2008), the “Dr R A Mashelkar Endowment Lecture on Advanced Materials”, National Chemical Laboratory, India (2013) and the “Dechema-Award” (2013).