Dr. Julia Erika Weigand
Personal data: 23.01.1981, German, 1 child (2014)
Lab:
Technical University Darmstadt
Department of Biology
Schnittspahnstr. 10
64287 Darmstadt, Germany
E-Mail: weigand@bio.tu-darmstadt.de
Telephone: +49 6151 16 22005
Fax: +49 6151 16 22003
Scientific career
- Since 06/2012: Research associate at the Department of Biology, Technical University Darmstadt. Maternity leave in 2015.
- 01/2012 – 05/2012: PostDoc at the Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt (Prof. Dr. Beatrix Suess)
- 01/2010 – 12/2011: PostDoc at the Institute for Cardiovascular Regeneration, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Goethe-University Frankfurt (Prof. Dr. Stefanie Dimmeler)
Education
- 01/2006 – 12/2009: PhD thesis at the Institute for Microbiology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen, from 08/2007 at the Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt (Prof. Dr. Beatrix Suess) Title: “Identification, characterization and application of engineered riboswitches” (summa cum laude)
- 01/2005 – 09/2005: Diploma thesis at the Institute for Microbiology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hillen) Title: “Charakterisierung von RNA-Regulatorelementen” (1.0)
- 09/2000 – 09/2005: Studies of Biology (Diploma) at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen
Scholarships and Awards
- since 05/2018: Mentee in the mentoring program “ProProfessur”
- 10/2016: Prize of the Adolf Messer Foundation
- 05/2013 – 08/2016: Own position funded by the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Foundation
- 01/2010 – 12/2011: PostDoc-Stipend of the ECCPS (Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System)
- 2010: Award for the best PhD thesis at the Institute for Molecular Biosciences 2009/10
