!!Simona Radutoiu - Curriculum Vitae __Employment__ \\ *2011 – Associate Professor, tenure, MBG, Aarhus University, Denmark\\ *2007 – Group leader, MBI, Aarhus University, Denmark\\ *2003 – Assistant Professor, MBI, Aarhus University, Denmark\\ *2001 - 2003 Postdoc, MBI, Aarhus University, Denmark\\ *1998 - 2001 Assistant Professor-University of Agricultural Sciences, Romania\\ *Oct.1998 - July.1999, Maternity leave\\ *1997 - 1998 - PhD student - University of Tennessee, USA\\ *1994 - 1998 - PhD student- University of Agricultural Sciences, Romania \\ __Education__ \\ *1999 - PhD in Plant Physiology –Univ. of Agronomical Sciences, Bucharest, Romania\\ \\ __Research interests__\\ \\ Host-microbe interactions, plant microbiome, plant- symbiosis, receptor-mediated signalling, plant physiology, symbiosis.\\ \\ __Funding and Research grants__ \\ *Research grants and Fellowships awarded- principal investigator: **NovoNordisk Fonden- 3 mil DKK (0052855; 2019-2022)\\ **Danish Council for Strategic Research- BRCC (1308-00013B; 2014-2018) -15mil DKK- Consortium coordinator\\ **Danish Agency for Science- Research project (09-070023; 2010-2015)- 5,7 mil DKK\\ **Danish Research Agency, Young Scientists- (2113-04-0018; 2005-2009)- 2,5 mil DKK\\ **EU Marie Curie Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (QLK5-CT-2000-51222; 2001-2003)\\ *Other projects- partner or principal investigator\\ **2013 – 2022- partner in ENSA (Engineering Nitrogen Fixation for Africa)- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation\\ **2007 - 2017- partner in the Centre for Carbohydrate Recognition and Signalling (CARB)- Danish National Research Foundation\\ **2011 – 2015 – EU- COST Action FA1103: Endophytes in Biotechnology and Agriculture- member in the Management Committee \\ __Prizes__ \\ *2016 - “The Adam Kondorosi Academia Europaea Award for Early-Career Investigators” \\ __Invited lecturer (last 3 years)__ \\ *February 2018 – Oxford University, UK\\ *October 2016 – University of Tuebingen, Germany\\ *April 2016 – Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge, UK\\ \\ __Invited speaker at conferences (last 5 years)__ \\ *Plant Biology - plenary talk, Denmark 2018\\ *24th North American Nitrogen Fixation- Keynote Speaker, Canada 2018\\ *Plant and animal microbiota- Baeza, Spain 2017- invited speaker\\ *Plant Microbiota- EMBO workshop- 2017- invited lecturer\\ *IS-MPMI Congress- Greece 2014, USA 2016-plenary talk\\ *International Nitrogen Fixation-USA 2015, Spain 2017-plenary talk\\ *Keystone Symposia, USA 2015-invited speaker\\ *European Nitrogen Fixation Meetings (2002-2018). \\ __Expertise__ \\ *Reviewer for peer-reviewed journals\\ *Member in the International Advisory Board for European Nitrogen Fixation Meetings\\ *External expert for International Research Agencies (ANR, DFG- plant microbiota SPP program, SRC) \\ __Scientific supervision__ \\ *supervision of 8 postdocs\\ *(joint)supervision of 16 PhD students\\ *supervision of 5 master students \\ __National Collaborators__\\ \\ KU: M. Lyngkjær (BRCC project), K. Larsen and M. Thygesen (CARB), AAU: S.Højgaard and T. Tvederink (statistical modelling).\\ \\ __International Collaborations__\\ \\ Germany: Max-Planck Institute, Cologne (R. Garrido-Oter, P. Schulze-Lefert), Univ. of Freiburg (T. Ott), France: LRSV Toulouse (P-M Delaux), Italy: University of Torino (P.Bonfante, A.Genre), UK: The Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge (G. Oldroyd, S.Schornack), The University of Cambridge (U. Paszkowski), James Hutton Institute (A.Newton, E.James), Scottish Rural College (N.Havis), New Zealand: University of Otago (C.Ronson).\\ \\