Education
Hacker studied biology from 1970 to 1974 at the Martin Luther University in Halle and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1979.
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Jorg Hacker
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Career
From 2008 to 2010 he was president of the Robert Koch Institute. Since 2010 he has been president of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Medical Microbiology.
From 1980 to 1988 he worked as a junior researcher at the University of Würzburg, where he obtained his habilitation in microbiology in 1986.
From 1988 until 1993, Hacker was professor of microbiology at the University of Würzburg. In 1993 he moved to the chair for Molecular Infection Biology, which he held until 2008.
From 2003 to 2009, he was vice president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. From March 2008 to March 2010, he succeeded Reinhard Kurth as president of the Robert Koch Institute.
On 1 October 2009, Hacker was elected president of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
The solemn inauguration ceremony took place on 26 February 2010 and his official starting date was 1 March 2010.
Membership
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Göttingen Academy of Sciences.
German Academy of Science and Engineering. Academia Europaea.
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Germany