Holger Puchta#


Holger Puchta
Membership Number:6842
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Elected:2024
Main Country of Residence:GERMANY
Homepage(s):https://www.jkip.kit.edu/molbio/
ORCID:0000-0003-1073-8546
Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-puchta-a7380510/





Present and Previous Positions
  • 2004 Acting Director, Botanical Institute (since 1.1. 2023 Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuer Institute for Plant Sciences), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 2002 Full Professor of Plant Molecular Biology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 1995 - 2002 Group leader at the Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
  • 1989 - 1995 Research Fellow, Group Prof. Dr. Barbara Hohn, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Bale, Switzerland
  • 1986 - 1989 Phd student of Prof. Dr. Heinz-Ludwig Sänger, Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany

Fields of Scholarship
  • Plant genetics
  • Genome engineering
  • DNA recombination
  • DNA repair
  • Gene editing

Honours and Awards
  • 2024 Member of the German National Academy of Science Leopodina
  • 2023 “Highly Cited Researcher” (Web of Science)
  • 2023 - 2028 Reinhard Kosseleck Excellence Grant of the DFG
  • 2022 “Highly Cited Researcher” (Web of Science)
  • 2021 “Highly Cited Researcher” (Web of Science)
  • 2020 Falling Walls Berlin, Breakthroughs of the Year, “Winner” in the Category Live Sciences
  • 2020 “Highly Cited Researcher” (Web of Science)
  • 2017 - 2022 ERC Advanced Grant „CRISBREED“
  • 2016 “Pioneer of Plant Biotechnology”, awarded by the Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • 2011 - 2016 ERC Advanced Grant „RECBREED“
  • 2001 Paula and Richard von Hertwig-Price for Interdisciplinary Cooperation

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