Caroline Gutjahr#
Membership Number: | 6041 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 2022 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | https://www1.ls.tum.de/plantgen/home/ https://www1.ls.tum.de/plantgen/team/caroline-gutjahr/ |
ORCID: | 0000-0001-6163-745X |
Twitter: | @carogutj |
Linkedin: | https://de.linkedin.com/in/caroline-gutjahr-8464b15 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023,02 Director, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
- 2021,02 Associate Professor Plant Genetics (Fast Track) TU Munich, Germany
- 2017,09 Tenure Track Assistant Professor Plant Genetics, TU Munich, German
- 2015,01 Emmy Noether Group Leader, LMU Munich, Germany
- 2011,11 Research Group Leader, LMU Munich, Germany
- 2010,01 Postdoc, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2006,11 PhD student, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (due to lab move from Geneva)
- 2005,10 PhD student, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- 2004,09 Marie Curie Fellow, University of Turin, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis
- Plant-microbe interactions
- Plant symbiosis
- Plant hormone physiology
- Plant genetics
- Transcriptional regulation
- Plant molecular and cell biology
- Developmental biology of roots
- Plant biology
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Adam Kondorosi Award for early career research by the Academia Europaea
- 2018 President’s medal of the Society of Experimental Botany
- 2017 ERC starting grant
- 2017 Valent BioScience Young Investigator Award
- 2014 Emmy Noether grant of the DFG
- 2010 Young Researcher Excellence Award (for outstanding PhD thesis), University of Lausanne
- 2004 - 2008 PhD student Fellow of the German Academic Foundation (German Fellowship for highly talented students)
- 1999 - 2003 Student Fellow of the German Academic Foundation (German Fellowship for highly talented students, about 1% students awarded)