Jiří Friml#
© Nadine Poncioni/ISTA
| Membership Number: | 7235 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://ist.ac.at/en/research/friml-group/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8302-7596 |
| X: | @FrimlLab |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 Professor; Institute of Science and Technology (IST), Austria
- 2012 - 2014 Guest Professor; Ghent University, Belgium
- 2011 - 2014 Associated group leader; Central Institute of Science and Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- 2007 - 2012 Professor and Group leader; Plant Systems Biology Department, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) and Ghent University, Belgium
- 2006 - 2007 Professor; Plant Cell Biology Department at the University of Göttingen, Germany
- 2002 - 2006 Group leader; University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- 2001 - 2002 Research associate; Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Germany
- 1997 - 2002 Ph.D. Student in Biochemistry; Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- 1997 - 2000 Ph.D. Student in Biology; Max-Delbrück laboratory in Max-Planck-Society, Köln, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Arabidopsis
- Endocytosis and trafficking
- Adaptive plant development
- Non-transcriptional hormone signaling
- Auxin transport
- Auxin signaling
- Cell polarity
Honours and Awards
- 2024 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2024 Wittgenstein Award of FWF, Austria
- 2024 Medal of Merit of the town Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
- 2022 Elected member of Czech Learned Society (Učená Společnost)
- 2019 Neuron Award for Lifetime Contribution to Science, Czech Republic
- 2017 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2016 Charles Albert Shull Award (ASPB)
- 2015 Selected to 2015 World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds
- 2015 Erwin Schrödinger Prize (Austrian Academy of Science)
- 2014 Elected member of Junge Kurie, Austrian Academy of Science
- 2013 ERC Starting Grant
- 2012 EMBO Gold Medal
- 2011 Elected fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 2010 Elected EMBO member
- 2010 Körber European Science Award
- 2005 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
- 2004 EMBO Young Investigator Award
- 2000 Max Planck Society Award: The Otto Hahn Medal
