Timm Maier

Timm Maier studied biochemistry at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and completed his doctorate in structural biology with Wolfram Saenger at Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, in 2003. Timm Maier then moved as a Postdoc to the lab of Nenad Ban at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he was promoted to a team leader and lecturer position in 2006. In 2011, Timm Maier moved to the Biozentrum of the University of Basel as tenure track assistant professor and is associate professor at Biozentrum since 2016. He and his team are best known for structural studies on giant multienzymes in primary and secondary metabolism, in particular fatty acid and polyketide synthases, as well as on metabolic regulation and mTOR complexes.