During his undergraduate biochemistry studies at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, Ludger Johannes spent 1 year from 1990 to 1991 in the team of Heinz Arnheiter at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA. In February 1993, he earned his diploma in biochemistry. He started his PhD work in March 1993 under François Darchen at the Institut de Biologie Physico-chimique in Paris, France. After the PhD viva in October 1995, he moved to Institut Curie in Paris to the team of Bruno Goud, where he worked as a post-doctoral fellow until 1997. In 2001, he received the habilitation to direct research,.
