Simona Radutoiu - Curriculum Vitae#

Employment

• 2011 – Associate Professor, tenure, MBG, Aarhus University, Denmark
  
• 2007 – Group leader, MBI, Aarhus University, Denmark
  
• 2003 – Assistant Professor, MBI, Aarhus University, Denmark
  
• 2001 - 2003 Postdoc, MBI, Aarhus University, Denmark
  
• 1998 - 2001 Assistant Professor-University of Agricultural Sciences, Romania
  
• Oct.1998 - July.1999, Maternity leave
  
• 1997 - 1998 - PhD student - University of Tennessee, USA
  
• 1994 - 1998 - PhD student- University of Agricultural Sciences, Romania

Education

• 1999 - PhD in Plant Physiology –Univ. of Agronomical Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
  

Research interests

Host-microbe interactions, plant microbiome, plant- symbiosis, receptor-mediated signalling, plant physiology, symbiosis.

Funding and Research grants

• Research grants and Fellowships awarded- principal investigator:
  • NovoNordisk Fonden- 3 mil DKK (0052855; 2019-2022)
    
  • Danish Council for Strategic Research- BRCC (1308-00013B; 2014-2018) -15mil DKK- Consortium coordinator
    
  • Danish Agency for Science- Research project (09-070023; 2010-2015)- 5,7 mil DKK
    
  • Danish Research Agency, Young Scientists- (2113-04-0018; 2005-2009)- 2,5 mil DKK
    
  • EU Marie Curie Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (QLK5-CT-2000-51222; 2001-2003)
    
• Other projects- partner or principal investigator
  
  • 2013 – 2022- partner in ENSA (Engineering Nitrogen Fixation for Africa)- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
    
  • 2007 - 2017- partner in the Centre for Carbohydrate Recognition and Signalling (CARB)- Danish National Research Foundation
    
  • 2011 – 2015 – EU- COST Action FA1103: Endophytes in Biotechnology and Agriculture- member in the Management Committee

Prizes

• 2016 - “The Adam Kondorosi Academia Europaea Award for Early-Career Investigators”

Invited lecturer (last 3 years)

• February 2018 – Oxford University, UK
  
• October 2016 – University of Tuebingen, Germany
  
• April 2016 – Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
  

Invited speaker at conferences (last 5 years)

• Plant Biology - plenary talk, Denmark 2018
  
• 24th North American Nitrogen Fixation- Keynote Speaker, Canada 2018
  
• Plant and animal microbiota- Baeza, Spain 2017- invited speaker
  
• Plant Microbiota- EMBO workshop- 2017- invited lecturer
  
• IS-MPMI Congress- Greece 2014, USA 2016-plenary talk
  
• International Nitrogen Fixation-USA 2015, Spain 2017-plenary talk
  
• Keystone Symposia, USA 2015-invited speaker
  
• European Nitrogen Fixation Meetings (2002-2018).

Expertise

• Reviewer for peer-reviewed journals
  
• Member in the International Advisory Board for European Nitrogen Fixation Meetings
  
• External expert for International Research Agencies (ANR, DFG- plant microbiota SPP program, SRC)

Scientific supervision

• supervision of 8 postdocs
  
• (joint)supervision of 16 PhD students
  
• supervision of 5 master students

National Collaborators

KU: M. Lyngkjær (BRCC project), K. Larsen and M. Thygesen (CARB), AAU: S.Højgaard and T. Tvederink (statistical modelling).

International Collaborations

Germany: Max-Planck Institute, Cologne (R. Garrido-Oter, P. Schulze-Lefert), Univ. of Freiburg (T. Ott), France: LRSV Toulouse (P-M Delaux), Italy: University of Torino (P.Bonfante, A.Genre), UK: The Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge (G. Oldroyd, S.Schornack), The University of Cambridge (U. Paszkowski), James Hutton Institute (A.Newton, E.James), Scottish Rural College (N.Havis), New Zealand: University of Otago (C.Ronson).