Background
Gerd Ulrich Nienhaus was born in Cologne (1959), Germany.
Gerd Ulrich Nienhaus was born in Cologne (1959), Germany.
Diploma, Muenster University, Germany, 1983. Doctor of Philosophy summa cum laude, Muenster University, Germany, 1988. Thesis title (translated from German): “Investigation of protein structure and dynamics: x-ray and γ-ray scattering with spatially sensitive proportional counters”
Research and teaching assistant University of Münster, 1983. Research associate Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany, 1984, University of Münster, 1984-1989, University of Mainz, Germany, 1989. Postdoctoral research associate University Illinois, Urbana, 1990, visiting research assistant professor, 1991, assistant professor physics and biophysics, 1992-1996, associate professor, 1996-1997, adjunct professor, since 1997.
Professor and Director, Institute of Biophysics, University Ulm, Germany, 1996-2009. Visiting professor Stanford University, 1999, Professor and Director, Institute of Applied Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, since 2009.
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (executive board member 2007-2011), Biophysical Society, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biophysik (president 2009-2010).
Avocations: ham radio, jogging.
Married Karin Nienhaus, (1984). Children: Ulrike, Hans, Lea.