Katja Becker

Katja Becker
Occupation(s)physician and biochemist
Scientific career
Thesis Glutathione reductase and its apoenzyme: contributions to malaria chemotherapy and to diagnosing FAD deficiencies

Katja Becker (born 7 March 1965, also known as Katja Becker-Brandenburg in some older publications) is a German physician and biochemist who has been serving as the president of the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2020. She had previously been the organization's vice president from 2014 to 2019.[1]

From 2009 to 2012 Becker was the vice president for research at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.[2] From 2015 to 2017 she was a German representative on the scientific committee of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST).[3]

  1. ^ "DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - Katja Becker wird Präsidentin der DFG". www.dfg.de. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  2. ^ "Große Mehrheit für Prof. Katja Becker". Archived from the original on 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  3. ^ "COST - Katja Becker". Archived from the original on 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2016-03-04.