CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM
Prof. Alejandro Hochkoeppler
PERSONAL
Born
- July 8, 1958 in S. Salvador
Marital Status -
Married
Citizenship
- Italian
EDUCATION
Graduated in Agricultural Sciences at the University of Bologna
(Italy), November 10, 1982.
Ph.D. in Crop Sciences taken at the University of Bologna, June
23, 1987. Ph.D. dissertation on "Nitrogen fixation in
Soybean-Rhizobium symbiosis".
FELLOWSHIPS
Doctoral fellow at the Laboratory for Biopolymers by the Swiss
Federal Institute for Technology (ETH) in Zürich (May 1986 -
October 1987). Research topic: solubilization of bacteria
and organelles in water-in-oil microemulsions.
Annual Post-Doctoral fellowship at the Istituto Biosintesi
Vegetali, C.N.R., Milano (November 1987 - October 1988).
Research topic: anaerobic metabolism in rice seedlings.
Post-Doctoral fellow at the Istituto per le Colture Industriali
di Bologna (November 1988 - September 1990). Research topic:
solubilization of enzymes and plant cells in water-in-oil
microemulsions.
Annual Post-Doctoral fellowship at the Swiss Federal Institute
for Technology (ETH) in Zürich (October 1990 - September 1991).
Research topic: solubilization of bacteria, yeasts, and
organelles in water-in-oil microemulsions.
EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) short-term fellow
at the Centre d'Etude Nucleaires, Saclay, France (November 1992).
Research topic: photosynthetic electron transport in
bacteria.
Post-Doctoral fellow at the Department of Biology, University of
Bologna, Italy (November 1991 - May 1994). Research
topics: photosynthetic electron transport in bacteria;
immobilization of photosynthetic reaction centers in liquid
crystals; purification of electron transfer proteins from
photosynthetic bacteria.
Post-Doctoral fellow at the Biologisches Institut II, University
of Freiburg (Germany, May 1994 - May 1995). Research topic:
purification and properties of soluble electron transfer proteins
in heliobacteria.
Post-Doctoral fellow at the Department of Biology, University of
Bologna, Italy (May 1995 – October 1998). Research
topics: photosynthetic electron transport in bacteria;
immobilization of photosynthetic reaction centers in liquid
crystals; purification of electron transfer proteins from
photosynthetic bacteria.
Short-term fellow (January - February 1996) at the Institut für
Mikrobiologie, Freie Universität Berlin. Research topic:
studies on the cytochrome b subunit of the membrane-bound
hydrogenase from Alcaligenes eutrophus.
Participant of the “Advanced Bacterial Genetics” course held at
the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Long Island, N.Y.) in June,
1998.
Present Position
Since November 1998 Associate professor of Industrial Microbiology
and Industrial Biochemistry by the Department of Chemical
engineering (University of Bologna, permanent position).
