Short Bio
Patrick Cramer is the President of the Max Planck Society since June 2023.
He earned his Diploma in chemistry in 1995 at the University of Heidelberg, and finished his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg/EMBL Grenoble (France) in 1998. He was a Predoctoral fellow in Grenoble (France) from 1995 to 1998, and a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University (USA) from 1999 to 2001. He continued his career as a Tenure-track professor of biochemistry at the University of Munich from 2001 to 2003. Then he was a Professor of biochemistry at the University of Munich from 2004 to 2014. After that, he was the Director of the Gene Center of the University of Munich (LMU) from 2004 to 2013. He then continued as a Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry (2014-2021), since 2022 Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences. He is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina as well as the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and, since 2020, also of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
