Germán Rivas winner of the Bruker prize 2019

by biofisica · Published 25/04/2019 · Updated 19/04/2020

The Executive Council of SBE has awarded the 2019 “Manuel Rico” – Bruker prize to:

Dr. Germán Rivas, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas -CIB, CSIC (Madrid, Spain),

For his outstanding scientific trajectory in the study of interactions, reactivity and structural organization of supramolecular systems in crowded cell-like environments.

About Dr. Germán Rivas

CSIC Research Professor at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas – CIB (Madrid, Spain).

Scientific Trajectory

Dr. Germán Rivas is a CSIC Research Professor at the CIB, Madrid. He obtained his Ph. D. in Chemistry at the Autónoma University, Madrid, in 1989. He has been a Predoctoral fellow at the Instituto de Química Física Rosasolano (1985-1989), Postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health – NIH (1990-1992) and the Biocenter of the Univ. Basel (1993) and visiting scholar at the NIH (2007) and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (2018). Since 1994, he works at the CIB, where he assembled the Molecular Interactions Facility and currently coordinates the CSIC-UIMP Master on Molecular and Cellular Integrative Biology.

The research program of his laboratory has three main areas of interest: 1) Biochemistry, biophysics and bottom-up synthetic biology of bacterial division: biochemical organization and reconstruction from the bottom up of minimal divisomes in cell-like test tubes. 2) Intracellular biochemistry: reactivity and organization of macromolecular systems in crowded-phase-separated cell-like environments. 3) Physical biochemistry of macromolecular interactions.

More information

Please, visit the website of the Systems Biochemistry of Bacterial Division group at CIB.

About the “Manuel Rico” – Bruker Prize

Awarded in memory of Professor Manuel Rico, who was a leading biophysicist, member of the SBE, and a Research Professor at the Institute of Chemical Physics ‘Rocasolano’, CSIC (Madrid). He was a pioneer using NMR technologies to study protein structure, stability, dynamics and interactions.

Addressed to

Biophysicist who develope their main activity in Spain. Preference is given to members of the SBE working on Structure/Function problems from a Biophisics perspective.