Franz-Ulrich Hartl
German chemist
Franz-Ulrich Hartl (born 10 March 1957) is a German biochemist and the current Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. He is known for his pioneering work in chaperone-mediated protein folding.
Early life and education
Hartl was born in Essen, West Germany in 1957 to an electrical engineer father and a home economics teacher mother. His family moved to a village in northern part of the Black Forest when he was four. He was intrigued with biology since a young age, thanks to his hobby microscopist grandfather and a family friend who was a biology teacher. Hartl specifically became interested in biochemistry in high school after reading James Watson's account of the discovery of the helical structure of DNA, prompting him to study medicine and specialise in biochemistry at Heidelberg University. It was during this period when he had his first research experience, studying peroxisomes in rat liver. Hartl completed his MD degree in 1985.
Career
After receiving his MD degree, one of the external examiners of Hartl's thesis, Walter Neupert, invited him to join his group at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry of LMU Munich as a postdoctoral researcher. Hartl then achieved habilitation in 1990, which is one of the requirements for professorship in Germany.
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