Peter Nick

Peter Nick (born 1 October 1962 in Leutkirch im Allgäu) is a German molecular biologist, and head of Molecular Cell Biology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and long-standing Academic Dean for Chemistry und Biology, He was co-initiator of the Forum for Critical Transdisciplinary Studies (FKI) and recipient of the State Teaching Award of Baden-Württemberg in 2015.

He passed diploma exams in biology in Freiburg and obtained a doctorate in 1990 with the grade summa cum laude.

After research visits to the Frontier Research-Program, Wako-shi in Japan and the CNRS-IBMP in Strasbourg, he was appointed professor with Venia legendi in botany in 1996.

In 2003 Nick was appointed professor of molecular cell biology at the University of Karlsruhe at the Botanical Institut 1, and became its head in 1995.

He received the State Award Baden-Württemberg together with Mathias Gutmann 2015 for the Initiative Forum for Critical Transdisciplinary Studies (FKI).