Jörg H. Hacker

Jörg H. Hacker is a distinguished German microbiologist and molecular infection biologist. He served as President of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2010 and previously as President of the Robert Koch Institute (2008–2010). He held the Professor rank at the University of Würzburg from 1988 to 2008, where he was Head of the Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (1993–2008). His research focuses on Microbiology, Molecular Infection Biology, and Molecular Analysis of Bacterial Pathogens.

• 2014: Honorary Citizenship Grevesmühlen/Germany
• 2012: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
• 2012: Honorary degree, University of Tel Aviv, Israel
• 2011: Foreign Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
• 2010: Honorary Professor at the University of Greifswald, Germany
• 2009: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2006: André-Lwoff-Award of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS)
• 1985: Young scientist award of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology

Hacker earned his Ph.D. in Biology from Martin-Luther-University Halle (Saale), Germany (1979), and completed his Habilitation at the University of Würzburg (1986). He has held visiting professorships at the Sackler Institute for Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv University (2006), and research visits at the Institute Pasteur, Paris (2000, 2005).