Emeriti
The MPI of Molecular Plant Physiology was founded in 1994. As the institute is relatively young, there is not yet a long list of former directors. Mark Stitt was the first director emeritus in 2021. He was followed in 2022 by our founding director, Lothar Willmitzer.
Both directors remain closely associated with the Institute.
led the Metabolic Networks Department from 2001 to 2021. His department studied a wide set of physiological processes involved in orchestrating photosynthesis, carbon metabolism, nitrogen and phosphate utilisation, storage and growth. The Department used physiogical, biochemical, molecular, genetic and Systems approaches.
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Lothar Willmitzer is the founding director of the institute and headed the Department of Molecular Physiology from 1994 to 2022. The main topic of the department was the analysis of primary metabolic processes and their mathematical description. This included nutrient uptake and transfer as well as the structure of plant macromolecules.
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Former Research Group Leaders
Discover the contributions of past research group leaders whose work helped shape the scientific foundation of our institute.
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