Personal Information
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Name: | Simons |
First name: | Kai |
Date of birth: | May 24, 1938
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Born in: | Helsinki, Finland |
Nationality: | Finnish |
Civil status: | Married to Carola Simons born Smeds, three children |
Address: | Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Pfotenhauerstr. 108, 01307 Dresden |
Telephone: | +49 351 210 2800 |
Fax: | +49 351 210 2900 |
Email: | simons@mpi-cbg.de |
Education
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1964 | M.D., University of Helsinki |
Research Positions
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1965 - 1967 | Postdoctoral Research fellow at the Rockefeller University in New York (Prof. A.G. Bearn) |
1967 - 1975 | Investigator at the Finnish Medical Research Council, University of Helsinki |
1971 - 1972 | Acting Professor of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Helsinki |
1976 - 1979 | Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Helsinki |
1975 - 2000 | Group Leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg |
1982 - 1998 | Coordinator of the Cell Biology Programme, at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg |
1998 - 2006 | Director of the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden |
Present Position
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1998 - present | Group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden |
Membership in Societies
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1975 | European Molecular Biology Organisation |
1978 | Societas Scientarium Fennica |
1987 | Heidelberg Academy of Sciences |
1996 | American Academy of Art and Science |
1997 | Academia Europaea |
1997 | Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA |
1998 | German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |
2006 - present | Member / Fellow of ScanBalt Academy |
Honours
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1975 | Federation of European Biochemical Society Anniversary Prize |
1984 | Honorary Professor, University of Heidelberg |
1989 | Lamport Visiting Professor (Columbia, New York) |
1990 | Histochemical Society Lecture |
1990 | Keith Porter Lecturer, American Society of Cell Biology |
1991 | Anders Jahre Prize for Medical Research |
1991 | NICHD Lectureship in Cell Biology |
1993 | Carl Zeiss Lecture, German Society for Cell Biology |
1994 | HARVEY SOCIETY Lecture |
1996 | Dunham Lecturer, Harvard University |
1996 | Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
1997 | Runeberg Prize, Finland |
1997 | Adam Neville Lecture, University of Dundee, UK |
1998 | Choh Hao Li Memorial Lecture in Biochemical Endocrinology, University of California at Berkeley |
1999 | Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Oulu, Finland |
2000 | President of the European Life Scientist Organisation |
2001 | Schleiden Medaille awarded of Academy Leopoldina |
2001 | Honorary member of the German Society for Cell Biology |
2001 | ISI Highly cited researcher |
2002 | Hoppe-Seyler Lecture, Society of Biology and Molecular Biology Germany |
2003 | Honorary Professor at TU Dresden |
2003 | Albert Wander Prize, University of Bern, Switzerland |
2003 | Ayräpää Prize, Finland |
2003 | Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Leuven, Belgium |
2003 | Prix Mondial Nessim Habif, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
2004 | Virchow Lecture and Medal, University of Würzburg, Germany |
2005 | Foundation Day Lecture, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India |
2005 | Laurens van Deenen Medal, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
2006 | AIVirtanen Medal, Finland |
2006 | Honorary member of the Societas Biochemica, Biophysica et Microbiologica Fenniae |
2007 | Saxon Order of Merit |
2010 | Doctor honoris causa, University of Kuopio, Finland |
Editorships
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1977 - 1982 | Editor of Journal of General Virology |
1981 - 1984 | Editor of Journal of Molecular Biology |
1982 - 1985 | Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of General Virology |
1976 - 1981 | Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Virology |
1983 - 1986 | Member of the Editorial Board of EMBO Journal |
1980 - 1988 | Member of Advisory Board of Modern Cell Biology, a review series |
1985 - 1992 | Associate Editor of Journal of Cell Biology |
1992 - 2000 | Editor of Current Opinion in Cell Biology |
1998 - 2003 | Member of Editorial Board Proc.Nat.Acad.Sci USA (PNAS) |
1997 - | Editor of Journal of Cell Science |
2001 - 2009 | Molecular & Cellular Proteomics |
Recent memberships in committees etc.
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1990 - 1991 | Official expert of the task force Life Science and Medicine of the Advisory Council on Sciences in the GDR |
1991 - 1997 | Member and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Molecular (ZMBH) of the University Heidelberg, Germany |
1991 - 1992 | Member of the founding committee of the "Institute of Plant Genetics and Group Plant Research”, Gatersleben, Germany |
1992 - 1994 | Member of the Life Science Panel of the Human Capital and Mobility Programme, Brussels, Belgium |
1992 - 2003 | Member of the Founding and the Scientific Committee of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin-Buch, Germany |
1992 - | Member of the EMBO Peer Review Committee |
1994 - 2000 | Member of the International Advisory Board at the Basel Institute of Immunology |
1994 - 2002 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the biotechnology company BIOGEN in Cambridge, Mass., USA |
1994 | Member of the Interim Scientific Advisory Board for establishing a European Laboratory for Molecular Marine Biology in Bergen, Norway
President of the ECBO 1995 Conference (2000 participants in Heidelberg) |
1997 - 1999 | Member of the Council of the American Society for Cell Biology |
1997 - 2006 | Member of the Board of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology e.V., Jena, Germany |
1999 - 2000 | The American Society for Cell biology; Committee chair of International Affairs |
1999 - 2008 | President of the European Life Scientist Organization (ELSO) |
2000 - | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Biomedicum Helsinki, Finland |
2001 - | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Gulbenkian Institute in Oeiras, Portugal |
2002 | Member of the Search Committee for the Director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland |
2002 | Member of the search committee for the Executive Director for the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany |
2001 - | Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (BRC) |
2002 - | Chairman of the BioDresden e.V. Dresden |
2002 - | Cultural Council, City of Dresden |
2002 - | Cultural Development Plan, City of Dresden |
2002 - | Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain |
2002 - | Member of the Advisory Board, Institute and Graduate School of Biomembranes, Utrecht University, Netherland |
2002 - 2004 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre of Excellence, University of Oulu, Finland |
2003 - 2004 | Member of the External Advisory Group "Structuring the European Research Areas - Human Resources and Mobility", Brussels, Belgium |
2003 - 2005 | Member of the Janelia Farm Advisory Board at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA |
2003 - 2006 | Member of the International Advisory Board of the Wellcome Trust/ Cancer Research UK Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom |
2004 - 2006 | Member of the European Science Foundation (ESF) Executive Board, Strasbourg, France |
2007 - | Member of the ESF Science Advisory Board |
2004 - | Member of the EMBO Council, Heidelberg, Germany |
2006 - | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Biotechnology at the University of Helsinki |
2006 - | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Karolinska Institutet Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals Alzheimer Center (KASPAC) |
2006 - | Member of ERC Starting Grants Evaluation Panel |
2007 - | Chair of Scientific Advisory Board - Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) |
2007 – 2008 | Co-director Shanghai Institute for Advanced studies, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
2008 - | Chair of ERC Starting Grants Evaluation Panel |
