J�rg Vogel, PhD, is a German scientist in the field of RNA biology. He holds a position as full professor and chairs the Institute for Molecular Infection Biology at the University of W�rzburg, Germany. Vogel studied biochemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Imperial College London. After his PhD work he performed postdoctoral research at the Uppsala University, Sweden and was an EMBO fellow at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel. From 2004 to 2009 he was a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology. Since 2009 he is a full professor at the IMIB and head of the institute as successor to J�rg Hacker. Vogel's current activities cover the fields of small regulatory RNAs in bacteria, RNA sequencing, RNA localization as well as microRNAs and long non-coding RNAs in infected eukaryotic hosts. J�rg Vogel has contributed to over 100 research publications including many articles in high impact journals like Nature, PNAS and EMBO Journal. Among other achievements he pioneered the application of RNA-Seq for the analysis of the bacterial transcription. J�rg Vogel received the VAAM Research award and the DGHM Senior Scientist Award. 

April 1st, 1967 in (Age 57)