Prof. Marcus Koch Curriculum Vitae
Academic Career
Table
2016 – 2019 | Managing Director COS |
Since 2011 | Founding member and member of the Directorate of the "Centre for the Environment Heidelberg" (HCE) |
Since 2011 | Founding director "Centre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg" (COS) |
Since 2010 | Head "Heidelberg Biodiversity Research Center" |
Since 2009 | Member of the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences |
2008 – 2016 | Spokesman "Heidelberg Young University" |
2007 – 2010 | Dean (Studies), Faculty Advisory Board |
2005 – 2007 | Managing director HIP |
since 2003 | Full Professor (C4) and Director at Heidelberg Institute of Plant Sciences (HIP) (until launch of COS) and Director of the Botanical Gardens and Herbarium Heidelberg (HEID) |
1999 – 2003 | Research assistant/aoProfessor at University of Applied Life Sciences, Vienna (Habilitation in Systematic Botany, 2002) |
1998 – 1999 | Postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena |
1996 – 1998 | Postdoc at the Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne |
1995 | Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) in Biology (University of Osnabrück) |
Honors
- 2022/2023 Marsilius fellowship (excellence initiative, DFG/Heidelberg University
- 2021 Guestprofessor at ETH Zurich
- 2019 Guestprofessor at UC, Santiago de Chile
- 2016 Guestprofessor and full faculty member at Praque University
- 2014 Marsilius fellowship (excellence initiative, DFG/Heidelberg University
- 2013 Elected member of the „Akademie für ökologische Landschaftsforschung“
- 1992-1995 Fellow „Studienstiftung Deustches Volk“
Additional Information
- Reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG), Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), European Research Council (ERC), NSF (USA), Czech Science Foundation (GACR), Polish Academy of Science and others
- Ad hoc reviewer for Science, Nature, eLIFE, Nature Comm., Nature Plant, New Phytologist, Trends in Plant Science, PNAS (USA), Annals of Botany, and many other journals
- Editor-in-Chief Plant Perspectives in Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, Advisory board Ruperto Carola
- Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee (MASC) member
