Education
After school in Braunschweig Ludewig studied physics, particularly biophysics, at the Technical University in the same city. He then studied at the Georg-August University in Goettingen, where he completed his studies with a Diploma at the Max-Planck-Institut for Biophysical Chemistry (Department of Membrane Physics). Ludewig then studied as a post graduate at the University of Hamburg and obtained his Doctorate (Doctor of Natural Science) in 1996 with a thesis on The Structure and Function of Chloride Canals under Thomas Jentsch.
Career
He is director of the Institute for Crop Science at the University of Hohenheim. After working abroad on a European Molecular Biology Organization Postdoc Stipendium at Seville University in Spain under Professor Lopes-Barneo he moved to Professor
Wolf Frommer in Tuebingen University.
In 2002 Ludewig became a Junior Group Leader at the Centre for Plant Molecular Biology in Tuebingen, obtained his professorship in 2007 and the Venia legendi for plant physiology. In 2009 – 2010 he took over as a stand-in professor at the Technical University in Darmstadt.
He was then appointed Professor of Nutrition Physiology of Horticultural Crops at Hohenheim University. He has been managing director of the Institute for Horticultural Crop Science (Institut für Kulturpflanzenwissenschaften) since it was given this new name.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pflanzenernährung (DGP), (German Society for Plant Nutrition) Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft (DBG), (German Botanical Society).
Membership
Ludewig is much in demand as a speaker at congresses and is a member of the executive committee of Biofector. He has more than 50 publications together with his colleagues.
