Prof. Dr. Daniel Schubert
Schubert Group
Intitute of Biology
Freie Universität Berlin
Professor
Epigenetics of plants
Room 115
14195 Berlin
Academic degrees:
2002 |
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Cologne, Max-Delbrück- Laboratory in the Max-Planck-Society, Cologne, and the Max-Planck- Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm, Germany Topic: Transgene silencing in plants” |
1999 |
Diploma at the University of Cologne, Max-Delbrück- Laboratory in the Max-Planck-Society, Cologne, Germany Topic: Transgene silencing in plants |
Positions held:
Since 2015 | W2 Professor for “Epigenetics of Plants”, Freie Universität Berlin |
2011 – 2015 |
Head of a research group, funded by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany |
2006 – 2011 |
Head of a junior research group in the Collaborative Research Center 590, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Heinrich- Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany |
2003 – 2006 |
Post-doctoral fellow with Dr. J. Goodrich at the Institute for Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
Academic activities and awards:
- Award of Heisenberg fellowship (2015), declined due to W2 professorship
- DFG postdoctoral fellowship (2004 – 2006)
- DAAD postdoctoral fellowship (2003)
- F1000prime Faculty member, Plant Genetics and Gene Expression section (since 2014)
- Frontiers in Plant Physiology, review editor (since 2011)
- Guest editor for PLoS Genetics (2014)
- reviewer for more than 15 scientific journals and 9 funding organizations
- Co-organisation of 2nd CRC 590 Symposium “Dynamic Chromatin in Development and Differentiation”, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany (2007)