Anna Katharina Simon - Curriculum Vitae#
TRAINING
- 1984-1989 Biology, FU Berlin Diploma with A. Mitchison, UCLondon, distinction
- 1990-1994 PhD Immunology with A. Mitchison, DRFZ Berlin, summa cum laude
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
- 1994 - 1998 Postdoc 1 with AM Schmitt-Verhulst, CIML, Marseille
- 1999 - 2005 Postdoc 2 with G. Screaton, WIMM, Oxford
- 2006 University Research Lecturer, first independent funding, WIMM Oxford
- 2014 Associate Professor, WIMM, Oxford
- 2015 Professor, WIMM, Oxford, tenured
- 2016 - now Professor, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford
CURRENT POST
- 2022 W3 Professor Charité & Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, topic speaker/director (the MDC is divided into 81 groups and 3 topics)
AWARDS
- 1994 Young Investigator Award Rheumatology EULAR
- 2018 Ita Askonas Prize for most outstanding European female group leader in Immunology (EFIS)
- 2021 FMedSci Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
MAJOR CURRENT FUNDING
- 2022 - 2027 €600,000/year, Helmholtz foundation, renewable quinquennially
- 2021 - 2026 Wellcome Investigator Award, £1.76M
- 2021 - 2025 Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship to Dr Borsa: £250,000
- 2023 - 2024 The Kenneth Rainin Foundation, $70,000
- 2023 - 2025 Health Care Research Wales, £250,000
PATENTS
- 2014-2016 Oxford patent 1404438.2 “Polyamines compounds and uses thereof”
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP
- 2013 - 2016 DFG panel SFB ‘Autophagy’ Frankfurt/Mainz
- 2015 SAB Institute of Molecular Genetics, Montpellier, France
- 2015 - 2019 Wellcome panel for Multi-user equipment
- 2015 - 2023 Editor for Cell Death and Disease (Nature publishing house)
- 2017 Panel Howard Hughes & Bill Gates International Scholars
- 2018 Evaluation Board of Leiden University Medical School
- 2021 DFG panel TransRegio ‘Ageing’ Ulm
- 2018 - 2022 SAB DRFZ Berlin, Germany
- 2018 - 2023 SAC member for NIH U19 grant
- 2023 - now Chair of SAB Institut Necker, Paris
CONFERENCES
Invited speaker- selection since 2014:
- 4 EMBO, 5 KEYSTONE, 6 GORDON, and 5 international conferences/ year
Meeting organisation - selection since 2014
- 2017 KEYSTONE on Autophagy, Co-organiser, US
- 2018 GORDON on Autophagy, Chair, Italy