About
Prof. Caroline Kisker has been the Head of the Chair of Structural Biology at the Rudolf Virchow Center since 2006 and Dean of the Graduate School of Life Sciences at the University of Würzburg since 2009.
She is also a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and Deputy Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research in Braunschweig.
In spring 2017, the plenum of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities elected Prof. Caroline Kisker as one of its new members.
Current positions at the University of Würzburg
- Dean - Graduate School of Life Sciences
- Vice Dean - Department of Medicine
- Head - Chair for Structural Biology at the Rudolf Virchow Center
- Supervisor and Member in different thesis committees - Graduate School of Life Sciences/Biomedicine
- Current term program can be found here.
Current position
- Co-Chair Rudolf Virchow Center of University of Würzburg (since 2016)
- Chair of Structural Biology (W3) of University of Würzburg (since 2005)
- Dean Graduate School of Life Sciences of University of Würzburg (since 2006)
Research Experience
2001-2005 Associate Professor, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
1998-2001 Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
1994-1998 Postdoc, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Education
1991‐1994 Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Honors
- Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (since 2017)
- Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2011)
Editorial and selected advisory boards
- Member of the “Senats and Bewilligungsausschuss für Graduiertenkollegs der DFG” (since 2014)
- Reviewer for the European Research Council (2014)
- Member of the scientific advisory Board of the Bavarian Science Foundation (2013)
- Vice-Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Helmholtz-Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig,Germany (since 2013)
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Helmholtz-Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany (since 2012)
- Vice Chair Structural Biology, Section of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2007-2012)
- Editorial Board DNA Repair (since 2002)
