• Free University Berlin, Germany 1982-1985
• Technical University Berlin 1985-1992
• Technical University Berlin, Assistant Professor (C1) (1992-1998)
• Technical University Berlin, Associate Professor (C2) (1999-2002)
• Arizona State University, Professor (2002-Present)

• Graduated magna cum laude, Technical University Berlin
• Joachim-Tiburtius Award
• Lemberg Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science
• Robin Hill Award of the International Photosynthesis Society
• Biologie 2001 Award of the Academy of Science of Göttingen
• Member of Faculty of 1000

• The mechanism of water splitting in PS II investigated by X-ray crystallography and spectroscopy (PI)
  Principle investigator: P. Fromme, funded by the NIH Period 07/01/2004 to 06/30/2009
  This grant provides support for the study of the structure and function of Photosystem II, the enzyme that produces all oxygen in the atmosphere. The research involves the crystallization, structure determination and X-ray structure analysis as well as EPR studies on the functional states of the water splitting system of PS II.
• Structure and function of supercomplexes of Photosystem I with its peripheral antenna system in green algae and cyanobacteria (PI)
  Principle investigator: P. Fromme, funded by the NSF Period 12/01/2004 to 11/30/2009
  This grant provides support for the crystallization and structural and functional investigations on the green algae and cyanobacterial PS I in complex with their external antenna systems: the LHC I in green algae and the IsiA antenna in cyanobacteria
• Interaction of Photosystem I with its natural electron acceptor ferredoxin: a model system for protein recognition and inter-protein electron transfer
  Principle investigator: P. Fromme, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture Period 08/15/2003 to 08/14/2006
  This grant provides support for the study of the interaction of Photosystem I with ferredoxin. The research involves the improvement of the PS I-ferredoxin crystals, X-ray structure analysis as well as EPR spectroscopic investigations on the complex

(43) Zouni,A., Jordan,R., Schlodder,E., Fromme,P.,Witt,H.T. (2000) Biochem. Biophys. Acta 1457, 103-105 First Photosystem II crystals capable of water-oxidation

(44) Linke,D., Frank,J., Holzwarth,J.F., Soll,J., Boettcher,C. and Fromme,P. (2000) Biochemistry 39, 11050-11056
In vitro reconstitution and biophysical characterization of OEP16, an outer envelope pore protein of pea chloroplasts

(45) Zech,S.G., Hofbauer,W., Kamlowski,A., Fromme,P., Stehlik,D., Lubitz,W. and Bittl,R.(2000) J. Phys. Chem. B 104, 9728-9739 A structural Model for the Charge Separated State P700 · + A1 · - in Photosystem I from the Orientation of the Magnetic Interaction Tensors

( 46) Hofbauer,W. Zouni,A. Bittl, R., Kern, J., Orth,P., Lenzian, F., Fromme, P., Witt, H.T.and Lubitz, W. PNAS 98, 6623-6628 Photosystem II single crystals studied by EPR spectroscopy at 94 GHz: The tyrosine radical Y D ·

(47) Käß, H., Fromme, P., Witt,H.T. and Lubitz,W. (2001) J Phys. Chem B. 105, 1225-1239 Orientation and Electronic Structure of the Primary Donor Radical Cation P700 + · in Photosystem I: A Single Crystals EPR and ENDOR Study

(48) Zouni,A ., Witt,H.T., Kern,J., Fromme,P.., Krauß,N., Saenger,W. and Orth,P. (2001) Nature, 739-743 Crystal Structure of oxygen evolving Photosystem II from Synechococcus elongatus at 3.8 Å Resolution

(49) Jordan,P., Fromme,P.., Witt,H.T., O. Klukas , Saenger,W. and Krauß,N. (2001) Nature 411, 909-917 Three-dimensional structure of cyanobacterial Photosystem I at 2.5 Å resolution

(50) Fromme,P., Jordan,P. and Krauss,N. (2001) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1507, 5-31 Structure of Photosystem I

(51) Byrdin,M. , Jordan ,P., Krauß,N., Fromme,P., Stehlik,D. and Schlodder,E. (2002) Biophys.J. 2002 83: 433-457

Light harvesting in Photosystem I: Modelling based on the 2.5 Å structure of Photosystem I from Synechococcus elongatus

(52) Sener,M.K., Lu,D., Ritz,T. Park,S.,Fromme,P. and Schulten,K.J. J. (2002) J Phys. Chem. B 106 (32), 7948-7960
Robustness and Optimality of Ligth harvesting in Cyanobacterial Photosystem I

(53) Fromme,P. Bottin,H., Krauss,N. and Sétif,P. (2002) Biophys. J. 83: 1760-1773 Crystallization and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Characterization of the Complex of Photosystem I with its Natural Electron Acceptor Ferredoxin

(54) Damjanovic,A., Vaswani,H.M., Fromme,P. and Fleming,G.R. (2002) J. Phys. Chem B., 2002; 106(39); 10251-
10262. Chlorophyll Excitations in Photosystem I of Synechococcus elongatus
(55) Balaban,T.S., Fromme,P. , Holzwarth,A.R., Krauß,N. and Prokhorenko,V.I. (2002)
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1556 (2002) 197-207
Relevance of the diastereotopic ligation of magnesium atoms of chlorophylls in Photosystem I ¶

(56) Fromme,P. Kern,J., Loll, B., Biesiadka,J., Saenger,W., Witt, H.T., Krauss,N. Zouni, A Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 357, 1337-13345 Functional implications on the mechanism of the function of photosystem II including water oxidation based on the structure of photosystem II

(57) Antonkine,M.L., Jordan ,P., fromme,P., Krauss,N., Golbeck,J.H. and Stehlik,D. (2003) J Mol Biol 327/3 671-697

Assembly of protein subunits within the stromal ridge of photosystem l. Structural changes between unbound and sequentially PS l-bound polypeptides and correlated changes of the magnetic properties of the terminal iron sulfur centers

(58) Fromme,P., Schlodder,E. and Jansson,S. (2003) Chapter 8 in: Light harvesting Antennas in Photosynthesis (B.
Green and B. Parson eds.) Series: Advances in Photosynth. Research (Govindjee ed.) Kluwer Acad. Press, The
Netherlands pp. 253-279 Structure and Function of the antenna System in Photosystem I

(59) Fromme,P. (2003) in: Methods and results in Crystallization of Membrane proteins (S. Iwata ed.) International
University Line La Jolla , California pp 145-173 Crystallization of Photosystem I

(60) Fromme,P., Melkozernov,A. Jordan,P. and Krauss,N. (2003) FEBS Lett 555, 40-44 Structure and function of
photosystem I: interaction with its soluble electron carriers and external antenna systems

(61) Plato, M., Krauss, N. , Fromme, P. and Lubitz,W. (2003) Chemical Physics 294, 483-499
Molecular orbital study of the rpimary electron donor P700 of photosystem I based on a
recent X-ray single crystal structure analysis

(62) Linke, D., Frank, J. Pope, M. S., Soll, J., Ilkavets, I. , Fromme, P., Burstein, E., Reshetnyak, Y.K. and Emelyanenko, V.I. (2004) Biophys. J. 86, 1479-1487. Folding kinetics and structure of OEP16

(63) Fromme, P. and Mathis, P. (2004) Photosyn. Res. 80, 109-124 Unravelling the Photosystem I reaction center: a history. OR: the sum of many efforts

(64) Sener, M. K., Park, S., Lu, D., Damjanovic, A., Ritz, T., Fromme, P. and Schulten, K. (2004) J. Chem Phys 120, 11183-11195 Excitation migration in Trimeric Cyanobacterial Photosystem I

(65) Grotjohann, I. , Jolley,C. and Fromme, P. (2004) Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 6 (20), 4743 - 4753
Evolution of photosynthesis and oxygen evolution: Implications from the structural comparison of Photosystems I
and II

(66) Fromme, P. (2004) in: Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry (W. Lennarz and M.D. Lane eds.) Elsevier Science,
San Diego USA in press, Photosystem I, Structure and Function