Prof. Dr. Rolf Heumann
- Name
- Prof. Dr. Rolf Heumann
- Born
- 21 April 1947, Landsberg/Lech, Germany
- Citizenship
- German
- Marital status
- Married, two children
- rolf.heumann@rub.de
Publications until 2021
- H-index
- 48
Educational and professional background
- October 1969 – October 1973
- Student of Microbiology at the Technische Universität München
- October 1971 – October 1972
- Visiting student at Queen Elizabeth College, London
- December 1973 – December 1975
- Diploma thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, headed by Prof. Dr. B. Hamprecht, Dep. Prof. Dr. F. Lynen
- February 1978
- PhD with the thesis “Production and characterisation of neural cell lines co-expressing cholinergic and adrenergic properties”, project continued until 1979
- August 1979 – March 1991
- Research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Martinsried, Department of Neurochemistry
- Head of a project group “Dynamics and stabilisation of neural structures”
- July 1988
- Habilitation in Zoology
- March 1991 – July 2012
- Head of the Department of Biochemistry II – Molecular Neurobiochemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Ruhr University Bochum
- Coordination of the bachelor's/master's course and education in biochemistry
- since August 2012
- Retired and senior professor at the Ruhr University Bochum
Professional activities
- 1998 – 2002
- Chair of the Study Group Neurochemistry in the “Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie” (GBM)
- 9 – 12 September 2001
- Chair for organizing the Annual Meeting of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Herbsttagung der GBM) at the Ruhr University Bochum
- 22 – 24 April 2005
- Chair for organizing a meeting supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) entitled Neuroprotection and adult stem cells in memory and learning
- December 2008 – March 2015
- Director of RUBION: Central Facility for Radionuclides and Ionic Radiation. Establishment of a molecular imaging center (STED microscope)
- 2010 – 2015
- Coordinator/training coordinator for the EU-FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training network (ITN) TRANSPOL
- April 2011
- Chair for GBM board supervising studies courses in molecular life sciences in Germany
- September 2012 – 2014
- Chairman of the GBM Study Group Molecular Neurobiology, chair for organizing a meeting in September 2012 at the Ruhr University Bochum
- 2013 – 2015
- Associate Editor of Biological Chemistry
- October 2013
- Co-organizer in the GBM International Meeting “Molecular Life Sciences 2013” in Frankfurt
- 2 – 3 October 2013
- Chair of a satellite symposium on studies courses in molecular life sciences in Germany as part of the GBM Meeting 2013
- December 2013
- Guest editor of the highlight issue of Biological Chemistry 394: “Perspectives in Molecular Neurobiology”
- September 2014 – 2016
- Chair of the GBM Study Group Meeting, International Meeting 2014 on “Perspectives in Neuroscience in Health and Disease” in Bochum
- March 2015 – September 2016
- Chair of Technical Committee 10, Life Sciences, Accreditation (ASIIN)
- January 2016 – December 2019
- PI of Future and Emerging Technologies Open EU-Grant “MAGNEURON Hijacking cell signalling pathways with magnetic nanoactuators for remote-controlled stem cell therapies of neurodegenerative disorders”
- 24 – 27 September 2017
- Chair of the International GBM Meeting “Molecular Basis of Life” at the Ruhr University Bochum
- 23 – 24 September 2019
- Organizer of the GBM workshop “Remote Manipulation of Cellular Functions on Neurodegenerative Diseases”
