Curriculum Vitae: Seraphine V. Wegner

2019 Full Professor, Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, University of Münster (DE)
2016−2019 Independent Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz (DE)Research Project: Light-controlled systems in bottom-up synthetic biology and tissue engineering
2014−2015 Group Leader, Dept. of New Materials and Biosystems, , Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems & Dept. of Biophysical Chemistry, Univ. of Heidelberg (DE)
2011−2014 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of New Materials and Biosystems, , Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems & Dept. of Biophysical Chemistry, Univ. of Heidelberg (DE)
2010−2011 Visiting scientist, Dept. of Chemistry/ Peking Univ. (CN)
2005−2010 PhD student, Dept. of Chemistry/ Univ. of Chicago (US)
09.2002−06.2005 Bachelor student, Dept. of Chemistry/ Middle East Technical Univ. (TR)

Grants, Fellowships and Awards

2019 DFG Research Grant
2018 ERC Starting Grant, ARTIST / Artificial cell-cell interactions for light switchable cell organization and signaling, European Research Council
2017 Faculty Member of the Max Planck Graduate Center (MPGC)
2016 Young Leaders in Science Program, Schering Foundation
2016 Research Grant from the Daimler und Benz Stiftung
2015 MaxSynBio Independent Group Leader, BMBF/MPG
2014 Eliteprogramm für Postdoktorandinnen und Postdoktoranden, Baden-Württemberg Stiftung
2012 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship
2010 Yang Cao-Lan-Xian Best Thesis Award, University of Chicago
2007 Helen Sellei-Beretvas Female Graduate Student Award in Chemistry, University of Chicago
2005 McCormick Fellowship, University of Chicago
2004 NSF-REU/ LANDO Summer Internship, University of Minnesota,
2002 TÜBITAK Undergraduate Fellowship, Middle East Technical University, Ankara/TR