Elke Deuerling
Prof. Dr. rer. nat.
Chair of Molecular Microbiology
Academic Education and Professional Experience
since 2012 | Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center 969 (SFB 969) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
since 2007 | Full Professor and Chair of Molecular Microbiology, University of Konstanz, Germany |
01/2011 - 03/2011 | Sabbatical at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA, Prof. A. Dillin |
01/2004 - 03/2007 | Heisenberg-fellow and independent group leader at the Center for Molecular Biology (ZMBH) of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany |
06/2002 - 12/2003 | Project leader (C1, assistant professor) at the Center for Molecular Biology (ZMBH) in the group of Prof. B. Bukau, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany |
08/1999 - 09/1999 | Sabbatical in the group of Prof. E. A. Craig, University of Wisconsin, Medical Sciences Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
04/1998 - 05/2002 | Project leader (C1, assistant professor) in the group of Prof. B. Bukau, University of Freiburg, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Germany |
04/1997 - 03/1998 | Post-Doctoral Fellow in the group of Prof. B. Bukau, University of Freiburg, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Germany |
11/1996 - 03/1997 | Post-Doctoral Fellow in the group of Prof. H. Bujard, subgroup of Dr. B. Bukau, Center for Molecular Biology (ZMBH), Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany |
02/1992 - 07/1995 | Doctoral Thesis (summa cum laude) in the group of Prof. W. Schumann, University of Bayreuth, Department of Genetics, Germany |
11/1986 - 02/1991 | Studies in Molecular Biology at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg and the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Main focus: genetics, microbiology and biochemistry Degree: Diploma biologist (with distinction) |
Honors Awards | |
2019 | Elected Organizer of the Gordon Research Conference “Stress proteins in Growth, Development and Disease”, June 2019, Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco, Italy |
2017 | Job offer (declined): Deputy Managing Director of the Research Centre Jülichof the Helmholtz Association |
2012 | HFSP-Awardee (Human Frontier Science Program, ranked number 17 in a worldwide competition from a total of almost 800 original letters of intent for a HFSP grant) |
since 2012 | Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center 969 (SFB 969) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
2012 - 2016 | Appointed member of the authorizing committee and senate of the DFG for Graduate Schools |
2011 | Elected organizer of the EMBO conference series “The Biology of Molecular Chaperones”, May 2011, Grundlsee, Austria |
2009 | Elected member of the editorial advisory panel of Biochem. J. |
2008 | Elected member of the advisory board of the GBM |
2007-2011 | Elected member of the advisory board of the VAAM |
2005 | FEBS Letters Young Scientist Award for the most outstanding Research Letter published 2004 in FEBS Letters with a corresponding author aged 40 years or younger |
2004 | Heisenberg-fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
2002 | Voted among the ten best lecturers (place 8) for medical students, pre-clinical studies at the University of Freiburg 2001/2002 |
2002 | HFSP-Awardee (Human Frontier Science Program, ranked number 11 among more than 600 worldwide applicants for the Human Frontier in Science Program) |
2001 | Eugen Graetz-Prize of the University of Freiburg, Germany |