Ramesh Shanmughom Pillai - Curriculum Vitae#

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EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• 1988 - 1990 Pre-University education at schools in Trivandrum, Kerala state, India.
  
• 1990 - 1993 BSc (Botany), University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India.
  
• 1994 - 1996 MSc (Biotechnology), Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.
  
• 1996 - 1998 PhD program of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. (Discontinued)
  
• 1998 - 2002 PhD at the Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland.
  

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

• Current 4 Postdocs/ 5 PhD students.
  
• Supervised so far: 9 PhD students and 13 postdocs
  
• Former members: Simon Conn (Professor, Flinders University, Australia), Hao Wu (Professor, CAS, China), Mateusz Mendel (PI, Roche, Switzerland), Zhaolin Yang (Staff Scientist, Broad Institute, USA)

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

2016 Total teaching of 29 h/year. Teaching (in French) at Bachelor (3rd year) Molecular Biology (21h), (in English) at Masters level (6h), and lectures to PhD students (2h). 29 hours/year total at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

MEMBERSHIP OF REVIEW PANELS

• SAB of IGH, Montpellier (since 2023)
  
• ERC Consolidator Grant Review Panel (since 2019, panel chair since 2021)
  
• Member, Global Investigator Network committee, EMBO (2019-2021)
  
• Reviewing for EMBO Fellowships, EMBO Young Investigator Program (since 2017)
  
• SAB of IAB, Grenoble. Nov 2017, June 2019
  
• HCERES Review of IBENS (Institute de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Superieure) (Dec 2017)
  
• HCERES Review of IGH, Montpellier (March 2020)

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Member of the EMBO (since June 2017)
  
• Lifetime Member of the The RNA Society (since 2006)
  
• Editorial board of Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) (since 2015)
  
• Editorial Board of RNA (since June 2018)
  
• Visiting Professor, IROAST, University of Kumamoto, Japan (since Oct 2016 - 2023)

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES

• 2024 Co-organizer, PIWI and piRNAs Meeting, Montpellier, France
  
• 2023 Co-organizer, Keystone Symposia RNA Modifications in Health and Disease, Banff, Canada
  
• 2023 Co-organizer Swiss RNA Workshop, Bern, Switzerland (annual event)
  
• 2020 & 2022 Co-organizer, Complex Life of RNA, EMBO-EMBL Symposia, 450 participants, EMBL, Germany
  
• 2019-2021 Co-organizer, Gene Regulation Workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland
  
• 2018 Co-organizer, Complex Life of RNA, EMBO-EMBL Symposia, 450 participants, EMBL, Germany