Maria Leptin

Dr. Maria Leptin is the President of the ERC. Her research groups at the EMBL in Heidelberg and the University of Cologne study the biophysics of cell shape changes. After receiving her Ph.D. at the Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland, Dr. Leptin moved to the LMB in Cambridge, UK, became a group leader at the Max-Planck Institute in Tübingen, and then a professor at the Institute of Genetics, Cologne. She spent time on sabbaticals or as visiting professor at UCSF, the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute at Hinxton. From 2010 to 2021, Dr. Leptin was the Director of EMB0. She is an elected member of EMBO, the Academia Europaea, the German National Academy, Leopoldina, an Honorary Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the EPFL, Lausanne.