Karl-Erich Jaeger knows the 60-kilometer stretch of country between Jülich and Düsseldorf like the back of his hand. At least twice a week, the professor of molecular biology leaves Jülich and his workplace at the Research Center on a drive past fields of sugar beet, through the Garzweiler brown-coal mining area, and past Dyck Castle to the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Düsseldorf. As a professor at the University of Dusseldorf and head of the Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology (IMET) his time is divided between research on enzymes derived from bacteria in Jülich and lecturing at the university.
There is a good reason why IMET is not on the university premises but on the campus of the Jülich Research Center: its breadth of expertise. Jülich is Germany's biggest nonuniversity research institution and one of the largest interdisciplinary research centers in Europe. IMET is only one of ...
