Jens Stougaard#
| Membership Number: | 4296 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | DENMARK |
| Homepage(s): | http://mbg.au.dk/ and http://carb.au.dk |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 - Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University
- 1994 - 2006 Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Structural Biology, Aarhus University
- 1990 - 1994 Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Plant Physiology, Aarhus University
- 1990 Visiting scientist at The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK
- 1986 - 1989 Postdoc fellowship, Department of Molecular Biology and Plant Physiology, Aarhus University
- 1984 OECD Fellowship , Max-Planck Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Cologne, Germany
- 1983 - 1986 Postdoc, Department of Molecular Biology and Plant Physiology, Aarhus University
- 1979 - 1983 PhD student, AFRC-Unit of Nitrogen Fixation, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K.
Fields of Scholarship
- Plant molecular genetics
- Legume genetics and genomics
- Plant development
- Receptors and signal transduction
- Plant-microbe interactions
- Symbiosis
- Nitrogen fixation
Honours and Awards
- 2016 The Villum Kann Rasmussen Annual Award for Technical and Scientific Research
- 2015 Elected member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV)
- 2014 Highly Cited Researchers 2014, ranked among the top 1% most cited in Animal and Plant Science
- 2012 -2016 Leader of Advanced Grant project awarded by the European Research Council
- 2007 -2017 Director of the Centre for Carbohydrate Recognition and Signalling, Centre of Excellence Danish National Research Foundation
- 2005 Elected member of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 2003- 2006 Editor-in-Chief, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (MPMI)
