Speakers

Bernd Reif studied physics and biochemistry at the University Bayreuth. In 1998, he received his PhD in chemistry at the Goethe-University Frankfurt where he worked with Christian Griesinger. After a postdoctoral visit in the group of Robert G. Griffin at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, he was leading an Emmy-Noether research group of the DFG at the Technische Universität München. Between 2003 and 2010, Bernd Reif was was appointed at the Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) and at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Since then, he is a professor for solid-state NMR at the Technische Universität München and the Helmholtz-Zentrum München. His research focuses on the development of MAS solid-state NMR methods for the characterization of structure and dynamics of proteins in the solid-state, as well as the application of solution- and solid-state NMR spectroscopy to the study of amyloidogenic peptides.