Petra Schwille: advisors and students

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Petra Schwille

German biophysicistborn 1968

Wikidata names Manfred Eigen as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Manfred Eigen

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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stated by WikidataManfred Eigen
2 steps up
stated by WikidataArnold Eucken
3 steps up
stated by WikidataWalther Hermann Nernst
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stated by WikidataFriedrich Kohlrauschstated by WikidataLudwig Boltzmann

Education and career8

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1999 to 2002
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
worked
2002 to 2012
TU Dresden
worked
from 2011
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
worked
from 2012
LMU Munich
worked
undated
University of Stuttgart
studied
undated
University of Göttingen
studied
undated
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
studied
undated
Cornell University
studied

At a glance

known as: biophysicist, university teacher
degrees: Doctor of Philosophy, TU Braunschweig, 1996
awards: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, 2010, Braunschweiger Forschungspreis, 2011, Philip Morris Research Prize, 2004, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, 2018, EMBO Membership, 2013, Suffrage Science award, 2013, Otto Warburg Medal, 2021, Bavarian Order of Merit
member of: German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, from 2010, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, German Academy of Science and Engineering, Academia Europaea, from 2018
notable works: Discovery of 505-million-year old chitin in the basal demosponge Vauxia gracilenta, Discovery of 505-million-year old chitin in the basal demosponge Vauxia gracilenta - Supplementary information
Wikipedia: in 7 languages

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Elsewhere9

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaPetra Schwille
stated by WikidataWikidataQ2080329
stated by WikidataORCID0000-0002-6106-4847
stated by WikidataVIAF40112883
stated by WikidataGND115653783
stated by WikidataISNI0000000013881557

papers

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stated by WikidataScopus7101790762
stated by WikidataSemantic Scholar2765810

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  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Petra Schwille: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q2080329},
  note = {read on 2026-10-27}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 27). Petra Schwille: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-27]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q2080329