Dr. Peter Rehling is Professor and Chair of Biochemistry at the Medical Center of the University of Göttingen. He received his doctorate degree in Biology from the Ruhr-University in Bochum in 1996. As a post-doctoral fellow he joined the laboratory of Dr. S.D. Emr at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of the University of California San Diego. In 2000, he moved to the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Freiburg as junior group leader and worked there until accepting his position in Göttingen in 2007. His research focuses on mitochondrial protein transport and the biogenesis of mitochondrial inner membrane protein complexes.

Dr. Sabine Rospert is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg. She received her PhD in Microbiology from the Philipps-University, Marburg in 1991. From 1992, Dr. Rospert worked as a PostDoc in the laboratory of Dr. Jeff Schatz at the Biocenter in Basel. In 1999, she moved to Halle/Saale to become an independent junior group leader at the Max Planck Research Unit “Enzymology of Protein Folding.” In 2003, she accepted a professorship in Freiburg. Since 2005 she is a full professor focusing on the function of ribosome-bound protein biogenesis factors in eukaryotic cells.