Johann Heider

Johann Heider is a professor at the Philipps-University of Marburg where he leads Laboratorium für Mikrobiologie dedicated to the investigation of anerobic microbial enzymes and metabolic pathways. He graduated in Biology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and also conducted his PhD (1992) there at the Institute for Microbiology/University Munich in prof Böck lab where he solved the mechanism of incorporating of selenocysteine into bacterial proteins.  He moved than for his post doc to University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA to the lab of Mark Adams, where he conducted biochemical studies on metallo-enzymes from hyperthermophilic Archaea. Then in 1995 for a short period he was employed at the Institute for Applied Microbiology/University Ulm where ehe started his research on anerobic toluene degradation to move to the Institute for Biology II/Microbiology, University Freiburg where he continued his research on biochemistry of anaerobic hydrocarbon metabolism. He did his habilitation in 1999 and obtained Assistant Professor position in 2001. In 2005 Hans Heider obtained W2 Associataed professor Position for Microbiology at Technical University Darmstadt where he stayed for next 3 years and finally obtaining full professor position in Microbiology at Philipps-University Marburg. He coauthored over 120 papers and H index around 47. He has several German and international patents, predominantly with BASF AG for which he discovered one of the most robust alcohol dehydrogenases – so call S-PED and R-PED from A. aromatoleum.