Elena Conti - Curriculum Vitae#

• Since 2007 Honorary Professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich (Germany)
  
• Since 2006 Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried/Munich (Germany)
  
• 1999 –2007 Group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg (Germany). Appointment in the Structural and Computational Biology Unit

• 1997 - 1999 Postdoctoral fellow at The Rockefeller University, New York (USA), Postdoc Advisor: John Kuriyan
  
• 1992 - 1996 PhD in Protein Crystallography at Imperial College, Faculty of Physical Sciences, London (UK). PhD Supervisor: Peter Brick
  
• 1986 - 1991 Chemistry degree at the University of Pavia (Italy), Diploma Supervisor: Martino Bolognesi

• 2014 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine
  
• 2011 Hans Krebs medal (FEBS)
  
• 2009 Elected Member of the German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
  
• 2009 Elected EMBO member
  
• 2009 Elected to the Board of Directors of the RNA Society (2009-2011)
  
• 2008 Gottfried Wilhem Leibniz Prize
  
• 2007 FEBS Anniversary Award
  
• 2006 Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture
  
• 2005 ELSO Early Career Award
  
• 1998 - 1999 HFSP Postdoctoral fellowship
  
• 1997 - 1998 EMBO Postdoctoral fellowship
  
• 1994 - 1995 Glaxo PhD fellowship
  
• 1992 - 1994 EU PhD fellowship