George M. Coupland - Curriculum vitae#
University Education
- 1977 - 1984 Glasgow University, Department of Microbiology - Graduated with First Class Honours in Microbiology
- 1981 - 1984 Edinburgh University, Department of Molecular Biology, Ph.D. with Professor Neil Willetts. Awarded a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in December 1984 - Title of thesis: The transposable elements and conjugation system of the IncN plasmid R46
Post-Doctoral Experience
- 1985 - 1988 Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne and Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne - Received a Royal Society European Exchange Fellowship and an EMBO long-term Fellowship to work as a post doctoral fellow with Professor Peter Starlinger
Tenured positions
- 1989 - 2001 Research group leader at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, UK. In March 1990 moved with the Institute to the Cambridge Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norwich.
- 2001 - In January 2001 appointed as a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne
External appointments and Honours
- Honorary Lecturer at the University of East Anglia, 1993-2001
- Honorary Professor at the University of Cologne, April 2003
- Elected Member of European Molecular Biology Organisation, 2001
- Elected Associate Member of the Class of Sciences of the Royal Academy of Belgium, 2006
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, London, 2007
- Elected Member to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 2009
- Elected Member of Academia Europaea, UK, 2009
- Faculty of 1000 Member, 2011
- Elected foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2012
