!!!Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='christiane-nuesslein-volhard.jpg' alt='Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard' height='200'}] %% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\ \\ \\ \\ __Present and Previous Positions__ *2014 Director Emeritus of Research Group "Colour Pattern Formation" at the Max Planck Institute of Developmental Biological Sciences, Tübingen *2005 - 2012 Director of the Friedrich-Miescher-Laboratory, Tübingen *1985 - 2014 Director at the Max-Planck-Institute of Developmental Biology, Tübingen *1981 - 1984 FML of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Tübingen *1978 - 1981 Group leader at the EMBL, Heidelberg *1973 PhD in Genetics, University of Tübingen *1969 Diploma in Biochemistry, University of Tübingen \\ __Fields of Scholarship__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __Honours and Awards__ *2013 - 2021 Chancellor of the order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts *2019 Schiller Prize of the City of Marbach *2014 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art *2009 Austrian Decoration for Science and Art *2007 German Founder Award of the Federation of German Foundations *2006 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards *2005 Grand Merit Cross with Star and Sash of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern und Schulterband) *1997 Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts *1996 Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg *1995 [The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine|http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1995/nusslein-volhard-facts.html] (together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis) *1994 Merit Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany *1993 Ernst Schering Prize, Berlin *1993 Sir Hans Krebs Medal from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies *1992 Otto Warburg Medal of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology *1992 Otto Bayer Award *1992 Mendel Medal *1992 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University *1992 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine *1992 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize *1991 Keith R. Porter Lecture *1991 Albert Lasker Medical Research Award, New York *1989 Rosenstiel Award *1986 Franz Vogt Award of the University of Giessen *1986 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation *Foreign member of the Royal Society, London, UK *Member of the National Academy, Wash. US *Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), the Leopoldina, Halle *Member of the Berlin/Brandenburg Academy, Berlin *The asteroid 15811 Nüsslein-Volhard is named in her honour *Memberships **1989 Founding member of the Academia Europaea **1989 Corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences **1990 Corresponding member of North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts **1990 Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS), London **1990 Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington **1991 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina **1992 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences **1995 Member of the American Philosophical Society **2001 - 2006 Member of the National Ethics Council of the Federal Government (German Ethics Council) **Member of the French Academy of Sciences **Member of the Scientific Committee of the Ingrid zu Solms Foundation **Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization *Honorary Degrees **1991 Honorary doctorate from the University of Utrecht **1991 Honorary doctorate from Princeton University **1993 Honorary doctorate from the University of Freiburg **1993 Honorary doctorate from Harvard University **2001 Honorary doctorate from Rockefeller University **2002 Honorary doctorate from University College London **2005 Honorary doctorate from University of Oxford **2007 Honorary doctorate from Weizmann Institute of Science **2008 Mercator Professorship, University of Duisburg-Essen **2011 Honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews **2012 Honorary doctorate from the University of Bath \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Nüsslein-Volhard_Christiane/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Nüsslein-Volhard_Christiane/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes