Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Thomas Pfannschmidt
Nationality German
ORCID 0000-0002-7532-3467
Academic Appointments
Since 4/2019 Professor (W3) for Plant Physiology, Institute for Botany, Leibniz-University Hannover
2012 - 2019 Full Professor at Université Grenoble-Alpes (UGA), France; Head of Research Team “Nucleo-plastidic interaction: Chloroplast biogenesis and redox control” at the Laboratoire Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale
2011 - 2012 Associate Professor, Friedrich-Schiller-University (FSU) Jena
2005 - 2011 Assistant Professor, FSU Jena, Head of Independent Junior Research Group “Plant Acclimation to Environment: Protein Analysis by Mass Spectrometry”
2001 - 2005 Scientific Assistant, Department for Plant Physiology, FSU Jena
1999 - 2001 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department for Plant Physiology, FSU Jena
1997 - 1999 Postdoctoral Fellow, Plant Cell Physiology and Molecular Biology, Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB)
1995 – 1997 DFG Post-Doc-Fellowship, Research project on “Redox control of plastid gene expression” at the University of Lund (Sweden) and RUB
Membership in Collaborative Research Programs
2024 - 2027 SPP 2237 MAdLand (Molecular Adaptations to Land), Göttingen, Germany
2015 - 2019 Lab of Excellence GRAL (“Grenoble Alliance” for Structural Research), France
2007 - 2013 DFG Research Group FOR 804 “Retrograde signalling”, Berlin, Germany
2002 - 2006 DFG Research Group FOR 387 “Redox Regulation”, Bielefeld, Germany
2001 - 2004 SFB 604 “Multifunctional signal proteins”, Jena, Germany
Academic Degrees
2003 Habilitation and venia legendi in Botany, FSU Jena
1991 - 1994 Thesis (Dr. rer. nat.), RUB
1985 - 1990 Study of Biology (Diploma), Main subjects: Botany, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Physiological Chemistry; RUB
Reviewing activities
Manuscript reviews for all leading journals in Life and Plant Sciences including: Cell, Science, Nature, Nature Plants, Nature Communications, PNAS, Plant Cell, Plant Physiology, Plant Journal, New Phytologist, Journal of Experimental Botany, Planta, Frontiers in Plant Sciences, Transactions of the Royal Society, Molecular Plant and many more.
Reviews of project proposals for national and international funding agencies including: German Research Foundation (DFG), European Research Council (ERC), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), National Science Foundation (NSF) USA, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) UK, Swiss National Fund,
Austrian Science Foundation, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) Belgium, Israelian Science Foundation (ISF), Agence Nationale de Recherche (ANR), France
Invited Opponent and PhD defence committee member: Sorbonne Universite (France), University of Umea (Sweden), University of Linköping (Sweden), University of Lund (Sweden).
Organisation of national and international meetings
2018: Jacques-Monod-Conference on “Retrograde Signalling”, Roscoff (France) (130 participants); 2014: “Plastids: Differentiation and communication”, Grenoble (France) (80 participants); 2012: “10th Meeting of Middle-German Plant Physiology”, Jena (Germany) (65 participants).
Invited speaker at international conferences (selection)
ESF/EMBO Workshop: Biology of plastids (2014) Putulsk (Poland); Gordon Research Conference on “Chloroplast Biotechnologie” (2015) Ventura Beach, California (USA); International Meeting “Organelle and Stress Biology” (2020), Shanghai (China), FEBS Meeting “Chloroplast signalling” (2022), Primosten (Croatia), International Meeting of TR175 “Chloroplast: From Genes to Systems” (2022), Kloster Irsee (Germany), Gordon Research Conference on Chloroplast Biotechnology (2025), Tuscany, Italy; International Conference on Chloroplast Research (2025), Seeon (Germany)
Engagement in the Research System
Numerous activities during the career. Some examples of recent years:
2023 - today Chief editor of section Photomorphogenesis in the journal Frontiers in Photobiology
2022 Head of Benchmarking Committee for the Biosciences at LUH, Member of LUH delegation establishing a cooperation with Universite Paris-Saclay, France
2020 Editor of special issue “Retrograde signaling” for Transactions of the Royal Society, UK
2019 and 2023 Member of DFG Evaluation Board for TRR175 “The Green Hub”
2019 Member of Scientific Advisory Board for the a new Master Study “Molecular Cell Biology”, University Bielefeld
Supervision of Researchers in Early Career Phases
Habilitations: 2015 Dr. Livia Merendino CR2 CNRS Grenoble, France (now Universite Paris-Saclay); 2018 Dr. Robert Blanvillain MCU Universite Grenoble-Alpes, France
Dissertations: Dr. Vidal Fey (2005, now Group leader University Turku, Finland), Dr. Raik Wagner (2007, now permanent Scientist Umea Plant Science Center, Sweden), Dr. Katharina Bräutigam 2008, now Professor at University of Toronto, Canada); Dr. Lars Dietzel (2009, now permanent Scientist University Frankfurt, Germany) Dr. Sebastian Steiner (2011, now permanent Scientist KWS Company Einbeck, Germany), Dr. Yvonne Schröter (2014, now Scientist KWS, Germany); Dr. Monique Liebers (2017, now Scientist LUH, Germany), Dr. Maha Chieb (2019, now Scientist UCLA Davies, USA), Dr. Carolina Cozzi (2024).
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