THOMAS BÖHMER, Dipl.-Ing., Dipl.-Biochem., Dr. rer. nat., studied biochemistry at the University of Bochum. For both his diploma and doctoral theses he was a visiting student at the Rockefeller University in New York. Subsequently, he worked as a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research focused on the nuclear pore complex, the largest molecular machine of the eukaryotic cell and exclusive gateway for transport between nucleus and cytoplasm. His fields of expertise are biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, structural biology, as well as biophysics and biotechnology.

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