Roland Benz (born 1943 in Singen, Baden-Württemberg) is a German biophysicist.
A Heisenberg Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (German Science Foundation), Benz was a visiting professor at State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNYSB) in 1980 and 1982.
In 1986, Benz became a full professor of biotechnology at the University of Würzburg, his alma mater.
[citation needed] Since 2009, Benz has held the Wisdom Professorship at the Jacobs University Bremen[1] and has been a research fellow at the Rudolf Virchow Center and the DFG Research Center for Experimental Biomedicine.
Benz is the leader of several research projects, including: In 2002, Benz was recognised with the Gay-Lussac/Humboldt Award de la Ministère de recherche français for his role in the development of a Franco–German collaboration.