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09.12.2023

Friml Jiří

Prof., Dr. rer. nat., Ph.D.
Born June 24, 1973, Uherské Hradiště, Czechoslovakia

Educational and professional preparation

  • 2005 – P.D., Habilitation in Genetics, University of Tübingen, Germany
  • 2002 – Ph.D., Biochemistry, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
  • 2000 – Dr. rer. nat., Biology, summa cum laude, University of Cologne, Germany
  • 1997 – M.Sc., Biochemistry, summa cum laude, Masaryk University, Brno
  • 1995 – B.Sc., Chemistry, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Employment and academic positions

  • 10/2012 - Professor; Institute of Science and Technology (IST), Austria
  • 2011 - 2014 Associated group leader, Central Institute of Science and Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
  • 2012 - 2014 Guest Professor; Ghent University, Belgium
  • 2007 - 2012 Professor and Group leader; Plant Systems Biology Department, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) and Ghent University, Belgium
  • 2006 - 2007 Professor; Plant Cell Biology Department at the University of Göttingen, Germany
  • 2002 - 2006 Group leader; University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany 
  • 2001 - 2002 Research associate; Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Germany
  • 1997 - 2002 Ph.D. Student in Biochemistry; Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
  • 1997 - 2000 Ph.D. Student in Biology; Max-Delbrück laboratory in Max-Planck-Society, Köln, Germany
  • 1995 - 1997 M.Sc. Student; Physical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Membership and positions in selected international organizations and societies

  • 2007–current – The European Plant Science Organization (EPSO)
  • 2010–current – American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)
  • 2010 – elected Member of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • 2011 – elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2014 – elected Member of Junge Kurie, Austrian Academy of Science

Notable awards

  • 2000 – Max Planck Society Award: The Otto Hahn Medal
  • 2002 – Volkswagen Stiftung Award 
  • 2004 – EMBO Young Investigator Award 
  • 2005 – Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
  • 2010 – Körber European Science Award 
  • 2012 – EMBO Gold Medal 
  • 2013 – ERC Starting Grant
  • 2014 – Běhounek Prize (Czech Ministry of Education)
  • 2015 – Selected to 2015 World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds
  • 2015 – Erwin Schrödinger Prize (Austrian Academy of Science)
  • 2016 – Charles Albert Shull Award (ASPB)
  • 2017 – ERC Advanced Grant
  • 2019 – Neuron Award for Lifetime Contribution to Science, Czech Republic
  • 2014–2021 – Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher

Selected publications

Publications 2001 – 5/2022:
Items: 326 (PubMed); Citations: 56225; h-index: 117 according to Google Scholar
For a complete list of all publications see: https://ist.ac.at/en/research/friml-group/#Publications

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