Short presentation

Matthias Mann is Research Director and Group leader at the Proteomics Program at Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR, www.cpr.ku.dk) at the University of Copenhagen. He also holds a Director position at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich. Matthias Mann is one of the most highly cited researchers in the world with h-index 216 and more than 200,000 citations. He is a pioneer of mass spectrometry-based proteomics and has made landmark contributions to the development of electrospray ionization. He has also contributed to making mass spectrometry applicable to molecular biology, including by developing computer algorithms to connect mass-spectrometric data with sequence databases.

Matthias Mann and his teams work in proteomics technology development and applying that technology to biological and clinical problems. Their large-scale proteomics and phosphoproteomics studies have shed light on a wide variety of questions in the life sciences. The focus of the Clinical Proteomics group at CPR is to identify biological markers for diabetes, obesity and other metabolic disorders. The group has already established robust and reproducible high-throughput proteomics workflows, are routinely applied for proteomic screening of clinical cohorts.

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Matthias Mann

Current positions 
2009:

Director, Proteomics Program, CPR, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

2005:

Professor and director, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Previous positions
2009–:

Director of the proteomics program, CPR, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2005–:

Honorary Professor, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

2005–:

Director, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

1998–2007:

Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Southern Denmark

1992–1998:

Group leader, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

1989–1992:

Postdoctoral fellow and senior scientist, University of Southern Denmark

Education 

1988:

PhD in Chemical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

1984:

MSc in Physics, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany

1982:

BSc in Physics and Mathematics, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany

Research awards

2017:

Lennart Philipson Award

2015:

Theodor Bücher Lecture and Medal

2015:

Danish Order of Dannebrog Knights Cross

2015:

Barry L. Karger Medal in Bioanalytical Chemistry

2013:

m4 Award – Ministry of Economic Affairs supports Personalized Medicine

2013:

Elected member of Leopoldina German National Academy of Sciences

2012:    

Louis-Jeantet Foundation Prize for Medicine

2012:   

Leibniz Prize of the German Research Society

2012:    

Körber European Science Award

2012:    

Ernst Schering Prize

2011:   

Fyodor Lynen Lecture Medal 2011 (German Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)

2010:    

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling Prize awarded by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences 2009 Honorary Degree awarded from the University of Dundee

2008:    

HUPO Distinguished Achievement Award in Proteomic Sciences (Shared with Prof. Denis Hochstrasser)

2007:    

Honorary Professor, CPR, University of Copenhagen

2007:    

2nd most cited European Scientist for the past 10 years according to ScienceWatch (Institute for Scientific Information)

2006:    

Biochemical Analysis Prize by the German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

2005:    

Protein Society Anfinsen Award

2004:    

Novo Nordisk Prize (shared with Prof. Peter Roepstorff)

2004:    

Lundbeck Nordic Research Prize

2004:    

Honorary Doctorate University Utrecht, Netherlands

2001:    

Meyenburg Cancer Research Award

2001:    

Fesenius Prize for Analytical Chemistry by the German Chemical Society 2001 Bernhard and Matha Rasmussen’s Memorial Award in Cancer Research

1999:    

Named second most cited scientist in chemistry in 1994–1996 by the Institute of Scientific Information

1999:    

Elected visiting professor, Harvard Medical School

1999:   

Elected to EMBO

1999:    

Bieman Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry (American Society for Mass Spectrometry)

1998:    

Edman Prize from the Methods in Protein Structure Analysis Society

1997:    

Hewlett-Packard Prize for Strategic Research in Automation of Sample Preparation

1996:    

Mattauch Herzog Prize in Mass Spectrometry

1991:    

Organic Mass Spectrometry Malcom Award