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Anne Ulrich | |
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| Born | December 31, 1966 |
| Citizenship | German |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biochemistry, Biophysics |
| Institutions | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Website | www |
Anne S. Ulrich (born December 31, 1966) is a German chemist. She is the director of the Institute of Biological Interfaces (IBG-2) [1] and Chair of Biochemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
She studied chemistry at the University of Oxford - continued her doctoral work in the laboratory of Anthony Watts - held subsequent research positions as an EMBO-Fellow with Hartmut Oschkinat at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg and as a Liebig-Fellow with Felix Wieland at the University of Heidelberg - became Associate Professor at the University of Jena - until she moved her group in 2002 to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. [2]
Her research focuses on the structural and functional analysis of biomembranes by solid state NMR. [3] The main systems of interest are:
Ulrich comes from a family with strong scientific background.[ citation needed ]
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