Michael Sixt#

Membership Number:7022
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
Elected:2024
Main Country of Residence:AUSTRIA
Homepage(s):https://sixt.pages.ist.ac.at
ORCID:0000-0002-6620-9179


Present and Previous Positions
  • Since 9/2013 Tenured Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
  • 2014 - 2024 Executive Vice President, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
  • 9/2010 - 9/2013 Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
  • 11/2004 - 8/2010 Group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
  • 8/2002 - 10/2004 Postdoc at the Institute for Experimental Pathology, Lund, Sweden
  • 1/2001 - 7/2002 Clinical resident at the Dermatological Clinic Erlangen, Germany

Fields of Scholarship
  • Cell biology
  • Tissue mechanics
  • Gradient sensing
  • Cell polarity
  • Immunology
  • Cytoskeletal dynamics
  • Chemotaxis

Honours and Awards
  • 2022 ERC Synergy Grant
  • 2016 ERC Consolidator Grant
  • 2014 Elected EMBO Member
  • 2013 European Biophysical Societies Association Young Investigator Medal
  • 2013 Elected member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
  • 2012 Igantz L. Lieben Award (ÖAW)
  • 2011 ERC Starting Grant
  • 2011 FWF (Austrian Science Fund) START Award
  • 2008 Endowed Professor of the Peter Hans Hofschneider Foundation
  • 2003 Novartis Dissertation Award

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