Dr. Reinhard Fischer received undergraduate and graduate training at the University of Marburg, Germany. His PhD thesis was on methanogenic archaea, supervised by Rolf Thauer. From 1992 to 1993 he was a post-doctoral fellow with William E. Timberlake at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. His research at that time focused on nuclear migration and conidiophore development in Aspergillus nidulans. Dr. Fischer established his own research group in 1994 at the University of Marburg and the Max-Planck-Institute for terrestrial Microbiology and accepted an associate professor position at the University of Karlsruhe in 2004. He was promoted to a full professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2008.
His research focuses on different aspects of basic and applied fungal biology using A. nidulans, Alternaria alternata and the nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys flagrans as model systems. He has graduated 53 Ph.D. students and supervised more than 100 Bachelor- and Master theses. He served for the German Research foundation (DFG) as member of the microbiology panel for 8 years and for the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes for 12 years. He has been Vice Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences. Information about the Fischer lab can be found here: https://www.iab.kit.edu/microbio/
