grill@mpi-cbg.de

+49 351 210-2300

Max Planck Institute of Molecular
Cell Biology and Genetics
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Pfotenhauerstr. 108
01307 Dresden
Germany

Stephan Grill

Group Leader

Scientific Career

since 2018

Director and Research Group Leader at the MPI-CBG

2019-2021

Founding Speaker of the Cluster of Excellence 2068 Physics of Life, Technische Universität Dresden

2013 – 2019

Professor of Biophysics, BIOTEC, Technische Universität Dresden

2013

Habilitation in Theoretical Physics, University of Leipzig

2006 – 2013

Research Group Leader, jointly at the MPI-CBG and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden

2004 – 2005

Postdoctoral work at the Department of Physics, University of California and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley

2003

Postdoctoral work at MPI-CBG Dresden

1998 – 2002

PhD work at EMBL Heidelberg; PhD in Physics at the Technical University München

Scientific Awards and Honours

2019

Honorary Professor "Physics of Life" at Technische Universität Dresden

2017

ERC Advanced Grant

2017

EMBO Member

2015

Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics

2015

Max Planck Fellow at MPI-CBG Dresden

2015

Newcomb Cleveland Prize

2013

Binder Innovation Prize of the German Society for Cell Biology

2011

Paul Ehrlich- und Ludwig Darmstaedter-Nachwuchspreis

2011

ERC Starting Grant

2010

EMBO Young Investigator Award

2009

ARCHES Award, German Federal Ministry of Education and Minerva Foundation

2004

Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

2004

EMBO Long Term Fellowship

Memberships

since 2015

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Ingrid zu Solms-Stiftung

2014 – 2019

Adjunct Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society