Pocket Guide to Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering

Rolf D. Schmid studied chemistry and biochemistry in Munich and Freiburg, Germany, and did post-doctoral training in Gif-sur-Yvette (France), and Austin, Texas (USA). In 1972, he joined Henkel & Company, where he became director of biotechnology R&D. In 1987, he moved to the Gesellschaft fuer Biotechnologische Forschung (GBF), the national German center for biotechnology in Braunschweig; simultaneously, he also became professor of enzyme technology at the University of Braunschweig. In 1993, the University of Stuttgart, Germany, invited him to become director of the Institute of Technical Biochemistry within its Center of Bioprocess Engineering, which he still directs. He has spent sabbaticals at the National Bureau of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, Md., USA), the University of Tokyo (Japan), the University of Florence (Italy), and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Anthropology, Leipzig (GermanySchmid, Rolf D. is the author of 'Pocket Guide to Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering', published 2003 under ISBN 9783527308958 and ISBN 3527308954.