Gianni Liti - Curriculum Vitae#
Education and Employment
- 2021 CNRS position (DR1), Nice, France
- 2017 - 2021 CNRS position (DR2), Nice, France
- 2011 - 2017 CNRS position (CR1), Nice, France
- 2006 - 2011 Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK
- 2001 - 2005 Research Associate at University of Leicester, UK
- 1997 - 2000 PhD in Biotechnology of Fungi at University of Perugia, Italy
- 1991 - 1997 BSc/MSc in Biological Sciences, University of Perugia, Italy
Further training
- 2014 Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), UNSA, Nice, France
- 2007 Visiting scientist, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
- 1997 - 1998 Erasmus studentship, University of Abertay Dundee, UK
Honours and awards
- 2025 Franco-Taiwanese Award, French Academy of Sciences and NSTC Taiwan
- 2024 Lauréat Impulscience Fondation Bettencourt Schueller
- 2023 Mortimer Prize for contribution on yeast ecology and evolution
- 2021 EMBO Member, European Molecular Biology Organization
- 2021 Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei “Giovanna Jucci” prize for genetics
- 2021 - 2024 CNRS excellence bonus PEDR, France
- 2017 - 2020 CNRS excellence bonus PEDR, France
- 2015, 2021 Lauréat de prix d'excellence, Université Côte d’Azur, France
- 2015 DuPont Young Professor Award, USA
- 2013 - 2016 CNRS excellence bonus PES, France
Publication profile
Publications: Total 119, first/corresponding: 47 including, Nature (3), Nature
Genetics (2), Nature Ecol & Evol (2), Molecular Cell, Genome
Research (2), Molecular Biology and Evolution (3), Nature
Communications (4). Papers evaluated in F1000: 3.
Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=DKDEoMcAAAAJ&hl=en
Patent
Yeast strain improvement method (2014) (WO2014083142 A1)
http://www.google.com/patents/WO2014083142A1?cl=en
Institutional responsibilities
- 2025 Member of EMBO Membership Committee (4-years term)
- 2022 Member of the CSS2 Inserm (5-years term)
- 2020 - 2021 Member of the steering scientific council of Signalife, Nice
- 2012 - Faculty and founding member, IRCAN, France
- 2012 - Scientific advisory board of the IRCAN genomics and bioinformatics facilities
- 2012 - 2020 Member of the steering committee of Signalife PhD program, Nice
