Rolf D. Schmid

Rolf D. Schmid studied chemistry and biochemistry in Munich and Freiburg, Germany, and did post-doctoral training in Gif-sur-Yvette (France), and Austin, Texas (USA). In 1972, he joined Henkel & Company, where he became director of biotechnology R&D. In 1987, he moved to the Gesellschaft fuer mostrar más Biotechnologische Forschung (GBF), the national German center for biotechnology in Braunschweig; simultaneously, he also became professor of enzyme technology at the University of Braunschweig. In 1993, the University of Stuttgart, Germany, invited him to become director of the Institute of Technical Biochemistry within its Center of Bioprocess Engineering, which he still directs. He has spent sabbaticals at the National Bureau of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, Md., USA), the University of Tokyo (Japan), the University of Florence (Italy), and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany mostrar menos