Sonja-Verena Albers#

• 10/2021 - present Dean of the Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany
• 09/2014 - present W3 professorship for Microbiology at the University Freiburg, Germany
• 12/2011 Habilitation: Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany. Topic “The archaeal cell surface” (Supervisor Prof. Dr. E. Bremer)
• 2008 - 2014 Max Planch research group leader (free floater): Max Planck Institute for terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany. Topic: “Molecular Biology of Archaea”
• 2006-2011 VIDI laureate: University of Groningen, Molecular Microbiology, Haren, The Netherlands, from August 2008 at the Max Planck Institute for terrestrial Microbiology, Germany. Topic: “Secretion and assembly of the bindosome in the archaeal cell
• 2003 - 2006 VENI laureate: University of Groningen, Molecular Microbiology, Haren, The Netherlands. Topic: “Mechanism of secretion of macromolecules across the archaeal cell envelope”
• 1997 - 2001 PhD: University of Groningen, Molecular Microbiology, Haren, The Netherlands. Titel: “Sugar transport in the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus” (Supervisors: Prof. W.N. Konings and Prof. A.J.M. Driessen)
• 1996 Scientific assistant: Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany (06796-12/96) Topic: “Vector development for Sulfolobus solfataricus” (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. W. Zillig)

• Genetics
• Motility
• Protein biochemistry
• Molecular biology of archaea
• Surface filaments

• 04/2023 Elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
• 04/2022 Elected as Member of the Leopoldina (National Academy of Science)
• 06/2019 Elected as EMBO member
• 08/2016 Elected into the EAM (European Academy of Microbiology)
• 03/2012 “Forschungspreis” of the Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie (VAAM), Germany

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