Eileen Furlong - Curriculum Vitae#

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

• 2019 – to date Member of EMBL Directorate
• 2009 – to date Head of the Genome Biology Dept/Unit at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg
  
• 2009 – to date Senior scientist (member of EMBL’s senior faculty), EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.
  
• 2002 – 2009 Group leader at EMBL, Heidelberg. Appointment in the Developmental Biology and Gene Expression Units

SCIENTIFIC TRAINING

• 1996 - 2002 Postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University (USA), Advisor: Professor Matthew Scott
  
• 1992 - 1996 Ph.D. at University College Dublin (Ireland), Advisor: Professor Finian Martin.
  
• 1988 - 1992 B.Sc. (Hons), University College Dublin (Ireland), First class honor
  

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2020 Max Birnstiel Lecture – IMP Vienna
  
• 2019-2023 ERC advanced investigator award (DeCryPt)
  
• 2018+ Elected member to EMBO concil
  
• 2016 Elected member Academia Europaea
  
• 2015 Beddington Lecture, NIMM UK
  
• 2014+ Elected organiser (one of three main organisers) of the ‘Drosophila Crete meeting’, which runs every two years. This is an extremely important meeting within the Drosophila community. It has been running for over 40 years, and is considered a great honour to be put at the helm.
  
• 2013 Elected EMBO member
  
• 2013 ERC advanced investigator award (CisRegVar)
  
• 2012+ Main organiser of the biennial'EMBL Transcription conference’, which runs every two years. This is a very important conference within the transcription community that has been running for 20 years.
  
• 2004-2020 Main organiser of the biennial EMBL/EMBO 'From Functional Genomics to Systems Biology' conference
  
• 1999 Walter and Idun Berry postdoctoral fellowship
  
• 1997 Long term EMBO post-doctoral fellowship

MAJOR EXTERNAL COMMITTEES & SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION

• 2020+ Scientific Advisory Board member for MDC, Berlin, Germany
  
• 2020+ Scientific Advisory Board member for IGBMC, Strasbourg
  
• 2020+ Advisory Board for the journal Developmental Cell
  
• 2020+ Editorial Board member for Current Opinion in Genetics Develop.
  
• 2020+ Editorial Board member for Current Opinion in Cell
  
• 2019+ Advisory Editorial Board for the Journal Development
  
• 2018- Scientific Advisory Board member for the CRG institute, Barcelona
  
• 2018+ Steering Committee of Single Cell Omics Germany (https://www.singlecell.de/)
  
• 2017+ Co-Founder & co-head of the Single Cell Genomics Centre Heidelberg (EMBL, DKFZ and Univ. of Heidelberg) (https://single-cell-center-hd.de/)
  
• 2016-2020 Board of Reviewing Editors (BoREs) for the journal Science
  
• 2014+ Member of the ERC grant Panel Review Committee (LS2)
  
• 2013 Member of the Institut Curie international Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)
  
• 2013 Member of the Welcome Trust SAB for " Biological Determinants of Ageing and Late Life Health" Strategic Award
  
• 2013 SAB for the EU network ‘DevCom’ - integrate developmental and computational biology
  
• 2012 Visiting professor at National Institute of Genetics (NIG), Japan
  
• 2011 SAB "FlyAtlas" and “FlyAtlas2”. A community resource to annotate tissue-specific expression
  

Eileen Furlong is a regular reviewer for all top journals in molecular, developmental and systems biology and reviews grants for key funding bodies, including ERC, DFG, MRC, Welcome trust, French ARC, Swiss foundation. Her work has been supported by international and national grants (HFSP, ERC, EU FP7 and H2020, DFG, BMBF). She has been a Keynote speaker at a number of the top conferences in her field.