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Prof. Dr. Hans-Curt Flemming

Hans-Curt Flemming (1947) was born in Friedrichshafen, studied chemistry in Stuttgart and Freiburg and did his Ph.D. at the Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg on biosynthesis of O-antigens of E. coli. For 16 years he worked as a scientist at the University of Stuttgart and established the Biofilm Research Group. In 1994 he went to the Institute for Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Munich and built up the Biotechnology Department. Since 1996, he is full professor for Aquatic Microbiology at the University of Duisburg-Essen and member of the board of directors of the IWW Centre for Water. Since 2001 he is head of the newly installed Biofilm Centre at the University of Duisburg-Essen and has established the new international and interdisciplinary bachelor-master curriculum "Water Science". He has published over 250 articles and 6 books.