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Institute of Genetics mleptin(at)uni-koeln(dot)de |
EMBO Tel. + 49 6221 889 1 102 maria.leptin(at)embo(dot)org |
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Prof. Dr. Maria Leptin - Academic Career
ORCID 0000-0001-7097-348X
| 2010 – present | Director, European Molecular Biology Organisation, Heidelberg |
| Sep 2004 – Mar 2005 | Visiting Scientist, Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre, Hinxton, UK |
| Feb – Apr 2001 | Visiting Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris |
| 1994 – present | Professor, University of Cologne, Institute of Genetics |
| 1989 – 1994 | Research group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen |
| Jan – Mar 1989 | Guest Scientist with Pat O'Farrell, UCSF |
| 1988 | Staff Scientist at the MRC LMB, Cambridge |
| 1984 – 1987 | Postdoctoral fellow in Michael Wilcox’ lab at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK |
1979 – 1983 |
Doctoral Thesis with Fritz Melchers at the Basel Institute for Immunology (degree 1983 from the University of Heidelberg) |
Fellowships, Honors
1984 – 1986 |
EMBO Longterm Research Fellowship |
| 1986 – 1988 | Research Fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
| 1996 | elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) |
| 1998 | elected Member of the Academia Europaea |
| 2010 | elected Corresponding Member of the NRW Academy of the Sciences and Arts |
| 2016 | elected Member of the National Academy, Leopoldina |
| 2017 | elected Honorary Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences |
| 2018 | Appointed Visiting Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Oxford |
| Boards and Councils of Academic Societies | |
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1996 – 1997 |
President of the German Society for Developmental Biology |
| 2002 – 2007 | Member EMBO Committee 'Membership and Publications': 2005 – 2007 as Chair. |
| 2005 – 2010 | Member of the Council of the European Life Sciences Organisation (ELSO) |
| 2008 – 2012 | Advisory Board, German Genetic Society |
| 2009 – 2010 | Member of EMBO Council |
| 2012 – 2017 | President, Initiative for Science in Europe |
| Scientific Advisory Boards, Boards of Trustees, Evaluation Boards | |
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1998 |
EMBO Evaluation Committee for the Hungarian Academy of Science Institutes |
| 2003 – 2008 | Scientific Advisory Board ZMBH, Heidelberg. |
| 2005 | Evaluation panel of the Institute for Zoology, University Zürich (Chair) |
| 2004 – 2009 | Board of Trustees Max-Delbrück-Centrum, Berlin (deputy chair 2007, chair 2009) |
| 2004 – present | Board of Directors, Christiane-Nüsslein-Volhard Stiftung |
| 2007 | Research Grant Evaluation Panel for the Academy of Finland, Research Council for Biosciences and Environment |
| 2006 – 2009 | Member of the Board of Trustees, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK |
| 2009 – present | Scientific Advisory Board DKFZ | ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg |
| 2012 – present | Selection panel of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators |
| 2012 – present | Scientific Advisory Board, Max Planck institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden |
| 2012 – present | Scientific Advisory Board, IMBA Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna |
| 2013 – present | Hochschulrat - Cologne University |
| 2013 – 2017 | Scientific Advisory Board of the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) |
| 2014 – present | Scientific Advisory Board, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore |
| 2016 – 2017 | Scientific Rapporteur for the evaluation of seven Max Planck Institutes |
| 2018 | Scientific Advisory Board, Biozentrum, Basel |
| 2018 | Scientific Advisory Board, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan |
| Research Funding Organisations | |
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2008 – 2014 |
Chair, Grant Evaluation Panel LS3 for the European Research Council |
| 2014 – 2017 | Wellcome Trust UK, Science Interview Panel |
| Journal Editor | |
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1996 – 2001 |
Member of the Editorial Board of Developmental Biology |
| 2001 – present | Editorial Board 'Developmental Cell' |
| 2002 – 2009 | Co-editor of 'Mechanisms of Development' and 'Gene Expression Patterns' |
| Academic Administration | |
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1997 - 1998 |
Acting Director Institute of Genetics (15 professors and research group leaders, ca. 250 members). Conducted 4 professorial recruitments |
| 2005 – 2008 | University Senate Committee ‘Strategy and Finances’ |
| 2008 – 2009 | Acting Director Institute of Genetics |
| 1995 – 2012 | Developed and implemented the concept and programme for graduate training for all biology graduate students at the University of Cologne, including the following steps and funds acquired |
| 1996 – 2005 | DFG-funded Graduate College ‘Genetics of Cellular Systems’: main applicant and chair. (60 students over 9 years; 12 faculty; funding ca. 900K Euro) |
| 2002 – 2009 | Government-funded International Graduate School: main applicant and chair (135 students over 9 years; 15 faculty; total funding acquired ca. 7 Mio Euro) |
| 2007 | Founder and first chair of the Graduate School for Biological Sciences at the University of Cologne (all biology faculty, additional Med. School faculty; total ca. 50 faculty, 360 students). |
| 2009 | Government- and University-funded International Graduate School: main applicant and chair. Total funding acquired ca. 5 Mio Euro |