George M. Coupland#
Membership Number: | 2676 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
Elected: | 2009 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | http://ceplas.eu/en/faculty/george-coupland |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 Director of the Department of Plant Developmental Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany
- 1989-2001 Research Group Leader at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK
- 1985-1988 Postdoct at the University of Cologne and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne
- 1984 PhD at Edinburgh University, UK in the Department of Molecular Biology
Fields of Scholarship
- Microbiology
- Molecular Biology
- Plant Developmental Biology
Honours and Awards
- Honorary Professor of the University of Cologne (2003)
- Fellow of the Royal Society, London (2007)
- Member of the Academia Europaea (2009)
- Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (2012)