Katja Becker

Quick Facts

Full Name	Katja Becker
Occupation	Biochemist
Date Of Birth	Mar 7, 1965(1965-03-07)
Age	59
Birthplace	Heidelberg
Country	Germany
Birth City	Baden-Württemberg
Horoscope	Pisces

Katja Becker Biography

Katja Becker is one of the most popular and richest Biochemist who was born on March 7, 1965 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Katja Becker (born 7 March 1965 referred to as Katja Becker-Brandenburg, in some of her earlier publication) is a German biochemist and doctor. From 2009 until 2012, she was vice president of studies of Justus Liebig Universität situated in Giessen, Germany. In 2020, she will be head of German Research Foundation where she was previously the vice president from 2014 to 2019. Between 2015 and 2017, she was the German member of the science committee at the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST).

Between 2000 and in 2005 Becker had been a part of Junge Akademie, part of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science as well as The Leopoldina Academy. Since June 2009, Becker is a full part of the Leopoldina Academy, one of its youngest members to date.

On 21 October 2009 Becker became the first woman ever to be elected to the vice presidency of the University of Giessen, serving her three-year term from 1 November 2009 to 31 October 2012.

Since 2014, Becker has been the coordinator of DFG Priority Program 1710, “Dynamics of Thiol-based Redox Switches in Cellular Physiology.” Since 2018 she has been the coordinator of the LOEWE Center DRUID (Novel Drug Targets against Poverty-related and Neglected Tropical Infectious Diseases) as part of the Hessian State initiative to fund academic-economic excellence (LandesOffensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz – LOEWE).

Becker was later employed as an associate researcher in the Biochemistry Center at Heidelberg University. In 1999 Julius Maximilians University in Wurzburg appointed her to an associate professorship in the Research Center for Infectious Diseases (German: Zentrum fur Infektionsforschung).

Katja Becker Net Worth

Katja Becker is one of the richest Biochemist from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Katja Becker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Becker was a medical student in the medical school at Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany, from 1984 until 1991. In 1988, she was awarded her PhD (summa and Laude) under the guidance under the guidance of R. Heiner Schirmer. The topic of her dissertation was “Glutathione reductase and its apoenzyme: contributions to malaria chemotherapy and to diagnosing FAD deficiencies” (German: Glutathionreduktase und ihr Apoenzym: Beitrage zur Chemotherapie der Malaria und zur Diagnostik von FAD-Mangelzustanden). She received her university professor’s degree (German”Habilitation”) in 1996 within biochemistry in the medical faculties of Heidelberg University. University of Heidelberg.

After finishing her residency in medicine during her time at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford as well as the University Hospital of Basel, Becker acquired research and clinical experiences throughout Nigeria as well as Ghana and served as postdoctoral fellows in the University of Sydney. She became biochemistry specialist medical doctor from Heidelberg University in 1998.

In 2000, Justus Liebig University in Giessen appointed her to a full professorship in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Interdisciplinary Research Center (German: Interdisziplinäres Forschungszentrum für biowissenschaftliche Grundlagen der Umweltsicherung (IFZ)). Most of her research focus is on the role of oxidative stress and antioxidative protective mechanisms during disease development and on developing new drugs to fight tumorous and infectious diseases, especially malaria. In 2006 she spent six months at the Scripps Research Institute for a research stay.

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