Prof. Dr. Harald John

Harald John studied chemistry at the University of Münster and finished his Ph.D. studies in the group of K. Cammann and W. Schlegel in Analytical Chemistry. Following a period as a research associate at the Institute of Occupational Medicine in Münster, he moved to the Lower Saxony Institute for Peptide Research, Hannover for a postdoctoral fellowship. Afterwards he has been Head of the Division of Analytical Peptide Chemistry at IPF PharmaCeuticals GmbH, Hannover. Harald John has habilitated at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as an external scientist (venia legendi in Analytical Chemistry), where he was also appointed as an adjunct Professor. In 2006 he changed to the Bundeswehr Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Munich (InstPharmToxBw), where he is heading a working group designated by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for biomedical verification of poisoning. He is focused on the development of procedures with toxicological, forensic or clinical relevance. Alongside this work he studied toxicology at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Leipzig and finished his degree as a scientific specialist for toxicology.