Heribert Hirt - Curriculum Vitae#

Education

• 1967 - 1975 Johannes Kepler Gymnasium Reutlingen, Germany
  
• 1976 - 1978 Study of Biochemistry, Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa
  
• 1979 - 1981 Study of Biochemistry, Univ. of Vienna, Austria
  
• 1983 Mag. rer. nat. (Univ. of Vienna)
  
• 1984 - 1987 PhD thesis, Inst. of Biochemistry, Vienna
  
• 1987 Post-doctoral fellow, Inst. of Biochemistry, Vienna
  
• 1988 Post-doctoral fellow, Dept. Microbiology, Oxford, GB
  
• 1991 Assist. Prof. at Inst. of Microbiology and Genetics, Univ. of Vienna
  
• 1994 Habilitation in Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Univ. of Vienna
  
• 1995 Sabbatical, Dept. of Mol. Biol., Wageningen, NL
  
• 1997 Associated Prof. at Inst. of Microbiology and Genetics, Univ. of Vienna
  
• 1999 - 1901 Vice-chair of Inst. of Microbiology and Genetics
  
• 2000 - 2003 Dean of graduate studies, International PhD program of the Vienna Biocenter
  
• 2000 - 2002 Vice-Director of Gregor-Mendel-Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
  
• 2006 - 2007 Head of Department of Plant Mol. Biology, Univ. of Vienna, Austria
  
• 2008 - 2013 Director of URGV Plant Genomics, Evry, France
  
• 2014 - 2016 Director of Center of Desert Agriculture, KAUST, Jeddah, KSA

Citations and h-index

• 302 publications in peer reviewed journals, 8 patents, 26 articles and books
  
• Total citations 52,883 (Google Scholar), h-index 105
  

10 most recent publications:

Shekhawat, K., Fröhlich, K., García-Ramírez, G. X., Trapp, M. A., & Hirt, H. (2022). Ethylene: A Master Regulator of Plant-Microbe Interactions under Abiotic Stresses. Cells, 12(1), 31.

Hirt H, Al-Babili S, Almeida-Trapp M, Martin A, Aranda M, Bartels D, Bennett M, Blilou I, Boer D, Boulouis A, Bowler C, Brunel-Muguet S, Chardon F, Colcombet J, Colot V, Daszkowska-Golec A, Dinneny JR, Field B, Froehlich K, Gardener CH, Gojon A, Gomès E, Gomez-Alvarez EM, Gutierrez C, Havaux M, Hayes S, Heard E, Hodges M, Alghamdi AK, Laplaze L, Lauersen KJ, Leonhardt N, Johnson X, Jones J, Kollist H, Kopriva S, Krapp A, Masson ML, McCabe MF, Merendino L, Molina A, Moreno Ramirez JL, Mueller-Roeber B, Nicolas M, Nir I, Orduna IO, Pardo JM, Reichheld JP, Rodriguez PL, Rouached H, Saad MM, Schlögelhofer P, Singh KA, De Smet I, Stanschewski C, Stra A, Tester M, Walsh C, Weber APM, Weigel D, Wigge P, Wrzaczek M, Wulff BBH, Young IM. (2023) PlantACT! - how to tackle the climate crisis. Trends Plant Sci. 28(5):537-543.

Sheikh AH, Nawaz K, Tabassum N, Almeida-Trapp M, Mariappan KG, Alhoraibi H, Rayapuram N, Aranda M, Groth M, Hirt H. (2023) Linker histone H1 modulates defense priming and immunity in plants. Nucleic Acids Res. 22;51(9):4252-4265.

Cui G, Konciute MK, Ling L, Esau L, Raina JB, Han B, Salazar OR, Presnell JS, Rädecker N, Zhong H, Menzies J, Cleves PA, Liew YJ, Krediet CJ, Sawiccy V, Cziesielski MJ, Guagliardo P, Bougoure J, Pernice M, Hirt H, Voolstra CR, Weis VM, Pringle JR, Aranda M. (2023) Molecular insights into the Darwin paradox of coral reefs from the sea anemone Aiptasia. Sci Adv. 17;9(11):eadf7108.

Blilou I, Hirt H. (2023) Desert plants to stop desertification: To succeed, reforestation projects to reclaim once fertile lands need to consider the local abiotic, biotic, and social factors: To succeed, reforestation projects to reclaim once fertile lands need to consider the local abiotic, biotic, and social factors. EMBO Rep. 6;24(2):e56687.

Yu G, Matny O, Gourdoupis S, Rayapuram N, Aljedaani FR, Wang YL, Nürnberger T, Johnson R, Crean EE, Saur IM, Gardener C, Yue Y, Kangara N, Steuernagel B, Hayta S, Smedley M, Harwood W, Patpour M, Wu S, Poland J, Jones JDG, Reuber TL, Ronen M, Sharon A, Rouse MN, Xu S, Holušová K, Bartoš J, Molnár I, Karafiátová M, Hirt H, Blilou I, Jaremko Ł, Doležel J, Steffenson BJ, Wulff BBH. (2023) The wheat stem rust resistance gene Sr43 encodes an unusual protein kinase. Nat Genet. 22. doi: 10.1038/s41588-023-01402-1. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37217714.

Rawat AA, Hartmann M, Harzen A, Lugan R, Stolze SC, Forzani C, Abts L, Reißenweber S, Rayapuram N, Nakagami H, Zeier J, Hirt H.(2023) OXIDATIVE SIGNAL-INDUCIBLE1 induces immunity by coordinating N-hydroxypipecolic acid, salicylic acid, and camalexin synthesis. New Phytol. 237(4):1285-1301.

Prall, W., Sheikh, A. H., Bazin, J., Bigeard, J., Almeida-Trapp, M., Crespi, M., Hirt, H., & Gregory, B. D. (2023). Pathogen-induced m6A dynamics affect plant immunity. The Plant Cell, koad224. Advance online publication.

Siodmak, A., Shahul Hameed, U. F., Rayapuram, N., Völz, R., Boudsocq, M., Alharbi, S., Alhoraibi, H., Lee, Y. H., Blilou, I., Arold, S. T., & Hirt, H. (2023). Essential role of the CD docking motif of MPK4 in plant immunity, growth, and development. The New phytologist, 239(3), 1112–1126.

Alghamdi, A. K., Parween, S., Hirt, H., & Saad, M. M. (2023). Complete genome sequence analysis of plant growth-promoting bacterium, Isoptericola sp. AK164 isolated from the rhizosphere of Avicennia marina growing at the Red Sea coast. Archives of microbiology, 205(9), 307.

Distinctions

• 1988 EMBO fellowship
  
• 1993 Award of the Austrian Society of Biochemistry
  
• 2001 Wittgenstein Prize
  
• 2006 Member of Pauli Institute
  
• 2008 Elected Member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization)
  
• 2009 ISI Highly Cited Researcher (Plant & Animal Science)
  
• 2010 France’s 100 most important researchers
  
• 2010 - 2013 Elected President of EPSO (European Plant Science Organisation)
  
• 2011 King Saud Distinguished Fellow
  
• 2014 ISI Highly Cited Researcher (Plant & Animal Science)
  
• 2014 World’s 3000 Most Influential Researchers (Thomson Reuters)
  
• 2024 ISI Highly Cited Researcher (Cross Plant & Animal Science)

Scientific activities

• 1997 - 2011 Editorial board member of the Journal of Experimental Botany
  
• 2000 - 2003 Coeditor of Protoplasma
  
• 2002 - 2009 Coeditor of Topics in Current Genetics
  
• 2003 - 2008 Coeditor of Plant and Cell Physiology
  
• 2005 - 2008 Coeditor of Molecular Genetics and Genomics
  
• 2007 - 2017 Coeditor of Molecular Plant
  
• 2012 - present Coeditor of PeerJ
  
• 2013 - present Editorial board member of Frontiers of Plant Physiology
  
• 2015 - present Editorial board member of Cellular and Molecular Proteomics
  
• 2019 - present Editorial board member of MDPI Plants
  
• 2021 - present Editorial board member of EMBO Reports
  
• 2022 Speaker, Global Think Tank PlantACT!

Other scientific activities

• 2001 - 2004 Coordinator, EU Program “Cross talk and integration of stress signal transduction”
  
• 2001 Organizer, Plant Protein Phosphorylation, 12-15 September 2001, Vienna, Austria
  
• 2002 - 2006 Member of Multi-National Arabidopsis Steering Committee
  
• 2002 - 2006 Executive board member of ÖGGT (Austrian Society of Genetics)
  
• 2004 - 2007 Member, Safety Committee for Genetically Modified Organisms, Austrian Government
  
• 2004 Organizer, Genomics of Arabidopsis as a Model Plant, 15-17 April 2004, Vienna
  
• 2005 Scientific Advisory Board Member of Göttingen Centre of Molecular Biosciences
  
• 2005 Organizer of International Botanical Congress, 18-21 July 2005, Vienna
  
• 2005 Organizer “Advancing the Genomics Frontier”, 24-27 August 2005, Neuchatel
  
• 2006 - 2007 President of Austrian Society of Genetics and Gene Technology
  
• 2006 Organizer, Keystone Conference ”Abiotic stress in plants”, 8-13 April 2006, USA
  
• 2007 Organizer, Gordon Conference “Temperature stress in plants”, USA
  
• 2009 Organizer of “Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance”, 8-11 February 2009, Vienna
  
• 2009 Organizer of “Plant Genomics and beyond”, 5-8 July 2009, Evry, France
  
• 2011 Organizer of “Proteomics” 21-22 March, Evry, France
  
• 2012 Organizer “Abiotic Stress in Plants, 21-25 February, Vienna, Austria
  
• 2012 Organizer, EPSO-FESPB Conference, 29 July-3 August, Freiburg, Germany
  
• 2015 Organiser, Abiotic Stress Meeting, 29-31 June, Vienna, Austria
  
• 2015 Organiser, Int. Arabidopsis Conference, 5-10 July, Paris, France
  
• 2015 Co-chair, Gordon Research Conference, PTM Networks, 6-10 July, Hongkong, China
  
• 2017 Chair, Gordon Conference, 13-18 August 2017, Hongkong, China
  
• 2018 Co-organizer, The Metaorganism Frontier, 18-22 February, Thuwal, KSA
  
• 2023 Co-organizer, UAE Microbiome, 20-22 November, Dubai
  
• 2024 Co-organizer of PlantACT! Conference, Duesseldorf, Germany
  
• 2025 Co-Organizer of PlantACT! Conference, Madrid, Spain