About Prof. Riesner

Prof. Riesner is a co-founder of QIAGEN. He has been on the Company's Supervisory Board since 1984 and was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board in 1999. Prof. Riesner has held the Chair of Biophysics at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf since 1980. In 1996, he was also appointed to the position of Vice President of Research, and in 1999, he was nominated Director of Technology at the University of Düsseldorf. Prior to that he was Professor of Biophysical Chemistry at the Darmstadt Institute of Technology and from 1975 to 1977, Lecturer of Biophysical Chemistry at Hannover Medical School. He has held guest professorships at the Institute of Microbiology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, and the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his M.S. in Physics from Hannover Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from the University of Braunschweig, with post-graduate work at Princeton University. Professor Riesner is also a member of the supervisory board or a director of New Lab Bioquality, Erkrath; Therascope, Heidelberg; Kourion, Düsseldorf; Neuraxo, Düsseldorf; and Solutas Hürth.