Daniel Gerlich#
| Membership Number: | 6312 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/research/daniel-gerlich |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1637-3365 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2012 Senior group leader, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna, Austria
- 2005 - 2012 Assistant Professor, Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Zurich, Switzerland
- 2002 - 2005 Postdoctoral fellow with Jan Ellenberg, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
- 1998 - 2002 PhD student with Roland Eils, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and University of Heidelberg, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Cellular self-organization
- High-content screening
- Cell nucleus
- Chromosome organization
- Cell division
Honours and Awards
- 2021 ERC Advanced Investigator
- 2017 EMBO member
- 2011 ERC Starting Independent Researcher (consolidator)
- 2011 Summer Research Award, Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA
- 2010 Dr. Ernst Th. Jucker Award for Cancer Research
- 2009 EMBO Young Investigator Award
- 2005 European Young Investigator Award (EURYI Award) of the European Science Foundation
- 2004 Junior scientist award, Society for Promotion of Molecular Biology Heidelberg
- 2003 Walther and Christine Richtzenhain Dissertation Award
- 2002 EMBO long term postdoctoral fellowship
- 1998 PhD fellowship “Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology”, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg
