Michael Sixt#
| Membership Number: | 7022 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://sixt.pages.ist.ac.at |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6620-9179 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 9/2013 Tenured Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
- 2014 - 2024 Executive Vice President, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
- 9/2010 - 9/2013 Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
- 11/2004 - 8/2010 Group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
- 8/2002 - 10/2004 Postdoc at the Institute for Experimental Pathology, Lund, Sweden
- 1/2001 - 7/2002 Clinical resident at the Dermatological Clinic Erlangen, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Cell biology
- Tissue mechanics
- Gradient sensing
- Cell polarity
- Immunology
- Cytoskeletal dynamics
- Chemotaxis
Honours and Awards
- 2022 ERC Synergy Grant
- 2016 ERC Consolidator Grant
- 2014 Elected EMBO Member
- 2013 European Biophysical Societies Association Young Investigator Medal
- 2013 Elected member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
- 2012 Igantz L. Lieben Award (ÖAW)
- 2011 ERC Starting Grant
- 2011 FWF (Austrian Science Fund) START Award
- 2008 Endowed Professor of the Peter Hans Hofschneider Foundation
- 2003 Novartis Dissertation Award
