Chris Turck

Since January 2023, Chris Turck has served as a Professor and Principal Investigator at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also holds positions as a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry (since May 2003) and the Graduate Program of Systemic Neurosciences (since June 2009) at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. Previously, he was the Head of Proteomics and Biomarkers at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry from 2002 to 2022. From 1986 to 2001, he was a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and concurrently served as the Director of the Protein Structure Laboratory at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His early career included postdoctoral research at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology (1983-1986) and roles as a Research Associate at the German Wool Research Institute and the Department of Macromolecular Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University (1981-1983).