Prof. Dr. Caroline Gutjahr

Academic career

• 02/2023-present
  Director at the Max-Planck-Instistute of Molecular Plant Physiology
  

• 02/2021-01/2023
  Associate Professor (W3) for Plant Genetics at the Technical University Munich
  

• 09/2017-01/2021
  Tenure Track Assistant Professor (W2) for Plant Genetics at the Technical University Munich
  

• 01/2015-08/2017
  Emmy Noether groupleader at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
  

• 12/2011-12/2014
  Research groupleader at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
  

• 2010-2011
  PostDoc with Uta Paszkowski, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  

• 10/2005-01/2010
  Doctoral thesis with Uta Paszkowski, University of Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland
  

• 2004-2005
  Marie Curie Fellow with Paola Bonfante, University of Torino, Italy
  

• 2003
  Diploma thesis with Peter Nick, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
  

• 1997-2002
  Biology studies at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) and the University of Aberdeen (Scotland), including research internships in Sri Lanka and Brazil
  

Fellowships and Awards

• 2022 Member of the Academia Europaea
  

• 2021 Adam Kondorosi Early Career Award of the Academia Europaea
  

• 2019 Member of Faculty Opinions

• 2018 President’s Medal of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB), UK

• 2018 - 2023 Member of the TUM Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS)

• 2017 ERC starting grant
  

• 2017 Valent BioSciences Young Scientist Award (by Plant Growth Regulation Society of America), USA
  

• 2016 - present Member of AcademiaNet
  

• 2015 - 2017 Member of Young Center of Advanced Studies (CAS^Y), LMU Munich
  

• 2014 Emmy Noether Fellowship of the German Research Council (DFG)
  

• 2010 Young Researcher Excellence Award, University of Lausanne (Lausanne)
  

• 2009 Doctoral fellow Société Académique Vaudoise (Switzerland)
  

• 2008 Doctoral fellow Roche Foundation (Switzerland)
  

• 2004 - 2008 Doctoral fellow German Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
  

• 1999 - 2003 Student fellow German Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
  

• 1999 - 2000 Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Editorial responsibilities

• 2019 -          Review Editor eLife

• 2019 - 2021 Review Editor The Plant Cell

• 2019 - 2020  Senior Editor Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

• ad hoc Editor PLoS Genetics

• 2018   Guest Editor (with Sebastian Schornack) Current Opinion in Plant Biology