Maria Leptin#
| Membership Number: | 1860 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.genetik.uni-koeln.de/groups/Leptin/lep_cv.htm http://www.embl.de/research/units/directors_research/leptin/members/index.php?s_personId=CP-60010469&os=6 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since November 2021 President of the European Research Council (ERC)
- since 2010 Director, European Molecular Biology Organisation, Heidelberg
- since 1994 Professor, University of Cologne, Institute of Genetics
- 1989 - 1994 Research group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen
- 1988 Staff Scientist at the MRC LMB, Cambridge
- 1984 - 1987 Postdoctoral fellow in Michael Wilcox lab at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
- 1979 - 1983 Doctoral Thesis with Fritz Melchers at the Basel Institute for Immunology (degree 1983 from the University of Heidelberg)
Fields of Scholarship
- Morphogenesis/development/Drosophila/cytoskeleton/innate immunity
- Development
- Immunology
- Cell and tissue architecture
Honours and Awards
- 1984 - 1986 EMBO Longterm Research Fellowship
- 1986 - 1988 Research Fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 1996 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
- 1998 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2010 Member of the NRW Academy of the Sciences and Arts
- 2025 ALLEA Madame De Staël Prize
