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
