Hubert Markl

Early life Markl was born on 17 August 1938 in Regensburg, Germany. He studied biology, chemistry and geography at LMU Munich. He completed his Ph.D. in zoology from LMU Munich in 1962. He did research internships at Harvard University and Rockefeller University in 1965–1966. In 1976, he earned his Habilitation (postdoctoral lecturing qualification) in zoology from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

Academic career and research From 1968 to 1973, Markl worked as full professor and director of the Zoological Institute at the Darmstadt University of Technology. Since 1974, he has been Professor of Biology at the University of Konstanz.

From 1977 to 1983, he was vice president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and from 1986 to 1991, he was president of the DFG. In 1993, he became president of the newly founded Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften). From 1996 to 2002, he was president of the Max Planck Society. He has also published many books.

He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985, and the American Philosophical Society in 2000. He was elected Foreign member of the Royal Society, in 2002. His nomination reads: