Julia Vorholt#
| Membership Number: | 7190 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://micro.biol.ethz.ch/research/vorholt.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6011-4910 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2012 Full Professor of Microbiology at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Since 2020 Co-Director Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Microbiomes
- 2020 - 2022 Director of Studies, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich
- 2018 - 2020 Chair, Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich
- 2010 - 2012 Chair, Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich
- 2006 - 2012 Associate Professor of Microbiology at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- 2001-2006 Independent Group leader CNRS (Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes Microorganismes), Toulouse, France (exchange program Max-Planck-Society/CNRS)
- 1999 - 2001 Group leader, Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
- 1998 Postdoc, University of Washington, Seattle, USA (Supervisor: Prof. M.E. Lidstrom)
- 1994 - 1997 Doctoral student (Dr. rer. rat.) Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany, Supervisor: Prof. R. Thauer
Fields of Scholarship
- One-carbon metabolism
- Endosymbiosis
- Plant microbiomes
Honours and Awards
- 2025 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2025 Novonesis Biotechnology Prize
- 2025 Academia Europaea, elected member
- 2024 US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), international member
- 2024 Feodor-Lynen medal
- 2020 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2019 European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), elected member
- 2015 European Academy of Microbiology (EAM), elected member
- 2015 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2012 German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, elected member
- 2012 "Researcher of the Month", Foundation Gen Suisse
- 2012 Elected Chair Gordon Research Conference "Molecular basis of microbial one-carbon metabolism"
- 2005 Phyllosphere 50th Anniversary conference best presentation award, Oxford
- 1999 PhD thesis award of the German Society for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM)
- 1998 Otto-Hahn medal of the Max-Planck-Society
