Detlev Arendt#
| Membership Number: | 4625 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.embl.de/research/units/dev_biology/arendt |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 Honorary Professor at the Rupprechts-Karl-Universität Heidelberg
- 2007 Senior Scientist, Developmental Biology Unit, EMBL
- 2006 Group Leader, Developmental Biology Unit, EMBL
- 2002 Team Leader, Developmental Biology Unit, EMBL
- 1998 Postdoctoral fellow at the EMBL
Fields of Scholarship
- Evolution and development
- Evolution of animals
- Evolution of the nervous system
- Evolution of cell types
- Annelid development
Honours and Awards
- 1998 - 2000 EMBO Long Term Fellowship
- 2011 Kowalewsky medal, awarded annually by the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists for extraordinary achievements in evolutionary developmental biology and comparative zoology
- 2012 - 2017 Advanced Grant European Research Council, “ERC Investigator”. Project: “BrainEvoDevo”
- 2015 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation
