Gáspár Jékely - Curriculum Vitae#

• 2023 Professor of Molecular Organismal Biology, Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University, Head of Department
  
• 2017 - 2025 Professor of Neuroscience, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter
  
• 2007 - 2017 Max Planck Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen
  
• 2004 - 2007 FEBS Postdoctoral fellow, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
  
• 2003 Junior fellow at the Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest, Hungary
  
• 2000 - 2003 EMBO Postdoctoral fellow, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

• 1999 Ph.D. in Genetics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary (Highest Honours), Ph.D. thesis at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Enzymology, Budapest, Peter Friedrich’s laboratory
  
• 1995 Biology and Genetics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

• 2023 EMBO Membership
  
• 2021 ERC Advanced Grant
  
• 2019 Wellcome Trust Investigator Award
  
• 2016 DFG Heisenberg Fellowship (declined)
  
• 2012 John Kendrew Award, EMBL
  
• 2010 ERC Starting Grant
  
• 2004 - 2006 FEBS Long Term Postdoctoral Fellowship
  
• 2003 - 2004 Junior Fellowship of the Collegium Budapest
  
• 2000 - 2002 EMBO Long Term Fellowship
  
• 2002 EMBO science writing prize
  
• 2000 Young Researchers’ Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  
• 1995 - 2000 PhD Fellowship, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
  
• 1999 Qualitas Biologica Hungarica Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

• 2024 - 2027 European Commission Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, ZooCELL, Total funding: 2,776,262 EUR, Shared with 12 other labs
  
• 2022 - 2025 BBSRC Response Mode Grant, B/W00853X/1, Total funding: £598,658
  
• 2022 - 2026 ERC Advanced Grant, 101020792 – PROTOEYE, Total funding: 3,153,919 EUR
  
• 2020 - 2024 HFSP Program Grant, RGP0033/2020-102, Co-I: Mikhail Matz, University of Texas at Austin. Total funding: $750,000
  
• 2019 - 2025 Wellcome Trust Investigator Award, 214337/Z/18/Z, Total funding: £1,559,269

• 2023 Deputy Director, Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University
  
• 2022 - 2024 Member of the Early Career Advisory Committee, Wellcome Trust
  
• 2020 - 2022 Head of the LSI Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity working group
  
• 2018 - 2022 Member PI of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network “EvoCell”
  
• 2017 - 2022 Associate Director Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter
  
• 2016 Head of the Electron Microscopy Facility at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
  
• 2013 - 2017 Member PI of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network “Neptune”
  
• 2011 - 2017 Examining authority, Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School, Tübingen, Germany
  
• 2011 - 2017 Faculty member of International Max Planck Research School “From Molecules