Heribert Hirt#
| Membership Number: | 7195 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.heribert-hirt.org |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3119-9633 |
| Linkedin: | https://fr.linkedin.com/in/heribert-hirt-77714046 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 Head of Desert Research, KAUST, Jeddah, KSA
- 2014 - 2016 Director of Center of Desert Agriculture, KAUST, Jeddah, KSA
- 2008 - 2013 Director of URGV Plant Genomics, Evry, France
- 2006 - 2007 Head of Department of Plant Mol. Biology, Univ. of Vienna, Austria
- 2000 - 2002 Vice-Director of Gregor-Mendel-Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
- 2000 - 2003 Dean of graduate studies, International PhD program of the Vienna Biocenter
- 1999 - 2001 Vice-chair of Inst. of Microbiology and Genetics
- 1997 Associated Prof. at Inst. of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Vienna
- 1995 Sabbatical, Dept. of Mol. Biol., Wageningen, NL
- 1994 Habilitation in Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Vienna
- 1991 Assist. Prof. at Inst. of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Vienna
- 1988 Post-doctoral fellow, Dept. Microbiology, Oxford, GB
- 1987 Post-doctoral fellow, Inst. of Biochemistry, Vienna
Fields of Scholarship
- Resilience of crop plants to abiotic or biotic stress conditions
- Sustainable solutions to reestablish forestation and sustainable carbon sequestration in deserts
- Plants survival under abiotic or biotic stress conditions
- Symbiosis of plants, microbes and soils in deserts
Honours and Awards
- 1988 EMBO fellowship
- 1993 Award of the Austrian Society of Biochemistry
- 2001 Wittgenstein Prize
- 2006 Member of Pauli Institute
- 2008 Elected Member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization)
- 2009 ISI Highly Cited Researcher (Plant & Animal Science)
- 2010 France’s 100 most important researchers
- 2010 - 2013 Elected President of EPSO (European Plant Science Organiation)
- 2011 King Saud Distinguished Fellow
- 2014 ISI Highly Cited Researcher (Plant & Animal Science)
- 2014 World’s 3000 Most Influential Researchers (Thomson Reuters)z
- 2024 ISI Highly Cited Researcher (Cross Plant & Animal Science)
