Konrad Beck

Qualifications 1990 'venia legendi docendi' in Biophysics ('Habilitation'); thesis work on Correlation of Primary Structure Analysis and Electron Microscopy of Multidomain Proteins, Johannes Kepler University, Department of Physics, Linz, Austria 1984 Ph.D. in Biology; thesis work on translation diffusion and phase separation in lipid monolayers, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysics, Department of Cell Physiology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 1981 Diploma in Physics; thesis work on thin film optics and quantitative light microscopy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Appointments 2002 - 2004 Research Associate, University of Wales College of Medicine, Dental School, Cardiff, U.K. spring 2002 Visiting Scientist, Nagoya University, School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya, Japan; sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Japan 1999 - 2001 fellow of the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale, Paris; Institute de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Unité Mixte de Recherche no 5086 du C.N.R.S., Lyon, France 1998 - 1999 Visiting Professor, Nagoya University BioScience Center, Nagoya, Japan; sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Japan 1997 - 1998 adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, U.S.A. 1992 - 1996 Research Associate, Shriners Hospital for Children, Research Unit, Portland, OR, U.S.A. 1990 - 1992 Research Associate and Member of the Faculty of Technics and Sciences, Department of Physics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria 1988 - 1989 Research Fellow of the German National Science Foundation (DFG), work at the Institute for Biophysics, University of Linz, Austria 1984 - 1988 Research Associate, Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Biocenter, University of Basel, Switzerland