Yrjö Helariutta - Curriculum Vitae#

SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

• 2022 - 2029 Centre of Excellence in Tree Biology by the Academy of Finland (Head: Yrjö Helariutta); my share EUR 1.1M for the first period (2022 - 2024)
  
• 2020 - 2021 ERC Proof of Concept (APPLICAL), EUR 150K
  
• 2019 - 2024, 2024-2029 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: CASS 2.0 & 3.0 (Head: Uwe Sonnewald); my share USD 1,2 M USD
  
• 2014 - 2022 Gatsby Charitable Foundation, University of Cambridge, UK; £ 3.4M
  
• 2015 - 2018 with Terri A. Long and Ross Sozzani, Bilateral US NFS/Bio – UK BBSRC; £ 247,931 (BBSRC/ Helariutta Contribution)
  
• 2013 - 2018 ERC Advanced Grant (EUR 2.4 M)
  
• 2005 - 2010 European Young Investigator Award (EURYI) by ES F (EUR 1.165 M)

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

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Editorial Work: Member of the Board of Reviewing Editors in Science, USA (2013 - 2022); Editor in Chief (2022-), Subject Editor in Physiologia Plantarum, SWE (2009-); Member of the Editorial Board in Planta, GER (2016-); Editor in Development, UK (2013-)

Reviewing Activities: EMBO Young Investigator Award committee member, GER (2011 - 2014); Scientific Advisory Board member in ZMBP Tübingen, GER (2010-2016, Chair, 2012-2016); Plant Molecular Biology, NLD (2009 - 2013); Plant Cell and Physiology, JPN (2008-2011).

Scientific expert positions: Enterprise Champion/SLCU representative, 2015 - 2022.

Opponent for PhD thesis: Imperial College, Univ of Nottingham, Univ of Kuopio, Univ of Helsinki Organizing scientific conferences: Sep 2020 - SLS'20: Pluripotency in Plant Development, Cambridge UK (main organizer); July 2019 - 15th Int’l Plant Cell Wall Meeting, Cambridge, UK (org. committee); July 2013 - Plant Vascular Biology, Helsinki (main organizer)