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Harald Jockusch (* 1939 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German biologist und artist with the alias Hal Jos.

Scientific education as biologist
Jockusch studied biology and chemistry in Frankfurt am Main, Tübingen and Munich. He did his thesis work at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen in the group headed by Georg Melchers and finished 1966 with the doctoral thesis Temperatursensitive Mutanten des Tabakmosaikvirus (Temperature sensitive mutants of tobacco mosaic virus) and an examination (rigorosum) at the University of Tübingen in genetics, microbiology and organic chemistry. As a student and during his thesis work Jockusch was a freelance scientific journalist for the dayly newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung und the weekly Die Zeit. As a postdoc he worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1971 he qualified as a lecturer of biology at the University of Tübingen. Between 1974 and 1977 Jockusch worked as an assistant professor at the Biocentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland. From 1977 to 1981 he was a professor for neurobiology at the University of Heidelberg. From 1981 to 2004 he then held the chair for developmental biology and molecular pathology at the University of Bielefeld. There he was vicerector for research and young researchers from 1988 to 1991. Harald Jockusch is married with the cell biologist Brigitte M. Jockusch.

Artistic career
The later artist Hal Jos began his career as an artist in 1947. Till today he took part in several exhibitions in Germany.

Exhibitions (selecton):
 * 1974 Stiefelhof Tübingen (Graphik)
 * 2008 You are welcome – Mad City 1968–1970 in Carl-Schurz-Haus, Freiburg
 * 2008/09 Participataion at regionale 9, Kunsthalle Basel
 * 2012 Retrospective Hal Jos: Menschen & Zeiten. Von Skizzen zur Metallic-Kunst, Universität Bielefeld