• Born 1st May 1933.
• Study of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Karlsruhe and the University of Heidelberg.
• From 1960-1963 Institute of Radiation Biology at the Nuclear Research Center in Karlsruhe.
• 1962 Ph.D.in physics at the University of Heidelberg.
• 1964 and 1965 Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Institute of Health, Education and Welfare USA. Research in the Department of Molecular Biophysics at Yale University, USA.
• 1966 Research Associate in the Department of Radiation Chemistry at the Nuclear Research Center in Karlsruhe.
• 1967-1972 Research Associate at the Institute for Radiation Biology of the Westfalian Wilhelms-University in Muenster.
• 1972 Habilitation thesis. Dozent for Radiation Biology and Biophysics.
• 1977 Professor for Radiation Biology at the Medical Faculty of the Westfalian Wilhelms-University in Muenster.
• At present Director at the Institute of Radiation Biology.

Research Activities in the following fields: Molecular Radiation Biology, Photobiology, Drug targeting with radiomimetica, Radiation Action at low doses, Radiation risk research. Specifically: The biological chromosome aberrations from irradation effects produced by ionizing radiation and dust inhalation from radiation particles.

Numerous publications in the above mentioned fields. Author and Co-editor of several scientific books on radiation action, radiation epidemiology and responsibility of scientists. Member of several scientific societies and member of the Concerned Physicists Initiative.

German Contact:
Professor Wolfgang Kohnlein Institute für Strahlenbiologie,
Westfaelische Wilhelms- Universitaet, Muenster,
Robert-Koch-Straße 47, Germany
Phone: 0011-49-251 83 55312 Fax: 0011-49-251 83 55303.
E-Mail: kohnlei@uni-muenster.de