Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla#
| Membership Number: | 5569 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://hmgu.de/ies |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1020-2074 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - now Director of Biomedicine, Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Helmholtz Centre Munich
- 2020 - now Director of the Stem Cell Centre, Helmholtz Centre Munich
- 2020/10 - 2021/09 Member of the Global Future Council on Data Policy, World Economic Forum
- 2016 - now Director of the Institute of Epigenetics & Stem Cells, Helmholtz Centre Munich
- 2016 - now Full Professor (W3), Chair of Stem Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology of the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
- 2012 - 2015 Coordinator of the Nuclear Dynamics & Signalling Programme, IGBMC, Strasbourg
- 2010 - 2012 Deputy Director of the Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Department, IGBMC, Strasbourg
- 2008/12 - 2016/10, Independent Group Leader, IGBMC. Strasbourg
- 2006/10 - 2008/11, Senior Scientist with L.Tora, IGBMC, Strasbourg
- 2002/08 - 2006/09, Postdoctoral EMBO fellow with M. Zernicka-Goetz, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Epigenetics
- Reprogramming
- Totipotency
- Nuclear organization
- Stem Cells/pluripotency
- Non-coding genome/transposable elements
- Chromatin
- Early mammalian development
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Science Editorial Board Member
- 2020 4DNucleome NIH Director’s Fund – Principal Investigator Award
- 2020 Cell Stem Cell Editorial Board Member
- 2020 Member of the Kuratorium and Brains Trust of the Biotopia Museum
- 2019 LifeTime European Initiative – Founding member and Work Package Leader
- 2018 Member of the Think Tank of the Helmholtz Association
- 2018 Steering Board Member Single Cell Omics Germany
- 2019 Honorary Skou Professor, Faculty of Health, Aarhus University
- 2017 Co-Chair for World Economic Forum Annual Meeting ‘Summer Davos’
- 2016 Genes & Development Editorial Board Member
- 2015 Elected EMBO Member
- 2015 Selected as Outstanding Young Scientist by the World Economic Forum
- 2014 Prize from the Fondation Schlumberger pour l’Education et la Recherche
- 2014 Prize Fondation Université de Strasbourg-Cercle Gutenberg
- 2011 ERC Starting Grant
- 2011 Elected RISE1 Member of EpiGeneSys Network of Excellence
- 2011 EMBO Young Investigator
- 2009 AVENIR Award from the INSERM
- 2009 Prize from the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM) Alsace
- 2003 EMBO Post-doctoral fellowship
