Wittbrodt lab Curriculum Vitae
Academic curriculum vitae
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2017 | Offer directorship Max F Perutz Laboratories, Vienna (declined) |
since 2012 | full focus on COS Heidelberg |
2010 to 2014 | founding and managing director of COS Heidelberg |
2007 to 2012 | at Heidelberg University and KIT |
2006 | Offer for full Professorship at Heidelberg University, (accepted) |
2006 | Offer for Directorship at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT, (accepted) |
2005 | Offer for full Professorship at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, (declined) |
1999 to 2009 | Group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL Heidelberg, Developmental Biology Unit and Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit |
1998 | Habilitation in Developmental Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Braunschweig |
1995 to 1998 | Junior Group Leader, SFB 271, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen |
Coordinating functions
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since 10/2019 | Elected Dean, Faculty of Biosciences, Heidelberg University |
since 11/2018 | Elected vice dean for research, Faculty of Biosciences, Heidelberg University |
since 2017 | Co-speaker of the thrust C3 in the Cluster of Excellence 3DMM2O (funded in 2018, German excellence initiative) |
2015 to 2019 | Elected Director of HBIGS, the Heidelberg Biosciences international Graduate School |
2014 to 2016 | Elected deputy managing director of COS |
2010 to 2014 | Founding and managing director of the newly established Centre for Organismal Studies, COS, Heidelberg (40 PIs) |
2010 to present | Member of the executive committee of the collaborative research center SFB 873 "Maintenance and differentiation of stem cells in development and disease" |
2012 to 2013 | President of the German Society for Developmental Biology (GfE: Gesellschaft für Entwicklungsbiologie) |
2008 to 2012 | Topic speaker in the BioInterfaces trans-disciplinary research program at KIT |
2008 to 2011 | Elected member of the DFG study section "Basic Biological and Medical Research" |
2008 to 2011 | Founder and dean of graduate studies at the BioInterfaces International Graduate School (BIfIGS) for trans-disciplinary research at KIT |
2007 to present | Member of the steering committee of HBIGS,the Heidelberg international graduate school for life sciences |
2007 to 2012 | Chairman and coordinator of the collaborative research center SFB 488 "Molecular and cellular bases of neural development" (21 PIs) |
2006 to 2009 | Member of the executive committee of the Network of Excellence MAIN |
2004 to 2007 | Elected member of the DFG study section "Basic Biological and Medical Research" |
2002 to 2004 | Coordinator of the HFSP grant "Lens-retina interactions" |
2001 to present | Founding Member of the Executive Committee of the Medaka Genome Initiative |
Honors/Awards
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2019 | Special Price of Heidelberg University for exceptional research |
2018 | ERC Synergy Grant (together with E. Birney) of the European research council |
2012 | Special Price of Heidelberg University for exceptional research |
2011 | ERC advanced grant of the European research council |
2011 | Lautenschläger Award at Heidelberg University |
2009 | Otto Mangold award of the German Society for Developmental Biology |
2009 | HMLS award of the Heidelberg Molecular Life Sciences panel |
