!!!Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla
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__Present and Previous Positions__
* 2020 - now Director of Biomedicine, Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Helmholtz Centre Munich
* 2020 - now Director of the Stem Cell Centre, Helmholtz Centre Munich
* 2020/10 - 2021/09  Member of the Global Future Council on Data Policy, World Economic Forum
* 2016 - now Director of the Institute of Epigenetics & Stem Cells, Helmholtz Centre Munich
* 2016 - now Full Professor (W3), Chair of Stem Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology of the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
* 2012 - 2015 Coordinator of the Nuclear Dynamics & Signalling Programme, IGBMC, Strasbourg 
* 2010 - 2012 Deputy Director of the Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Department, IGBMC, Strasbourg
* 2008/12 - 2016/10, Independent Group Leader, IGBMC. Strasbourg
* 2006/10 - 2008/11, Senior Scientist with L.Tora, IGBMC, Strasbourg
* 2002/08 - 2006/09, Postdoctoral EMBO fellow with M. Zernicka-Goetz, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
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__Honours and Awards__
*2023 Member, German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
*2023 Member, Latin American Academy of Sciences (ACAL)
* 2021 Science Editorial Board Member 
* 2020 4DNucleome NIH Director’s Fund – Principal Investigator Award    
* 2020 Cell Stem Cell Editorial Board Member
* 2020 Member of the Kuratorium and Brains Trust of the Biotopia Museum
* 2019 LifeTime European Initiative – Founding member and Work Package Leader
*2018 Female Award of the German Stem Cell Network[
* 2018 Member of the Think Tank of the Helmholtz Association
* 2018 Steering Board Member Single Cell Omics Germany 
* 2019 Honorary Skou Professor, Faculty of Health, Aarhus University
* 2017 Co-Chair for World Economic Forum Annual Meeting ‘Summer Davos’
* 2016 Genes & Development Editorial Board Member 
* 2015 Elected EMBO Member
* 2015 Selected as Outstanding Young Scientist by the World Economic Forum
* 2014 Prize from the Fondation Schlumberger pour l’Education et la Recherche
* 2014 Prize Fondation Université de Strasbourg-Cercle Gutenberg
* 2011 ERC Starting Grant 
* 2011 Elected RISE1 Member of EpiGeneSys Network of Excellence
* 2011 EMBO Young Investigator 
* 2009 AVENIR Award from the INSERM
* 2009 Prize from the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM) Alsace
* 2003 EMBO Post-doctoral fellowship
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[Curriculum Vitae |User/Torres-Padilla_Maria-Elena/CV]
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[Publication list|User/Torres-Padilla_Maria-Elena/Publications]
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[Highlights of my work and anecdotes