Claudine Kraft#
| Membership Number: | 7499 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://uni-freiburg.de/med-biochemistry/startseite/arbeitsgruppen/kraft/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3324-4701 |
| Bluesky: | @kraftlabfr.bsky.social |
| Publication Link: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=claudine+kraft&sort=date&size=100 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2025 Speaker of the DFG Excellence Cluster 2189 CIBSS
- 2020 Founding member of the WIA autophagy network
- since 2017 Full Professor (W3) at the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany
- 2015 - 2017 Associate Professor at the University of Vienna (tenured), Austria
- 2015 Habilitation, University of Vienna, Austria
- 2011 - 2014 Junior group leader at the Max Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Austria (Assistant Professorship, tenure-track)
- 2006 - 2011 Postdoctoral research in the group of Prof. Matthias Peter, Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (including two maternity leaves of 4 months)
- 2001 - 2005 PhD thesis (Dr. rer. nat) in the group of Dr. J.-M. Peters, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria
- 2000 - 2001 Diploma Thesis in the group of Prof. Stephen High, University of Manchester, UK
- 1997 - 2001 University of Basel, Switzerland, Diploma program in Molecular Biology
Fields of Scholarship
- Membrane trafficking
- Autophagy
- Phase separation
- Synthetic biology
Honours and Awards
- 2025 ERC Synergy grant
- 2018 ERC Consolidator grant
- 2017 Horizon2020 Marie Curie Innovative Training Network "DRIVE", Co-PI
- 2017 FWF START award
- 2014 EMBO Young Investigator Award
- 2012 Elected member AcademiaNet
- 2011 WWTF starting grant “Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators”
- 2008 Marie-Heim Vögtlin postdoc fellowship
- 2006 EMBO long-term fellowship
- 2006 FEBS postdoc fellowship
- 2005 PhD award of the Campus Vienna Biocenter
- 2005 1st poster price IMP/IMBA recess
- 2001 - 2005 PhD studentship in the Vienna Biocenter International PhD program
