Krishnaraj Rajalingam

Krishnaraj Rajalingam is the head of the Molecular Signalling unit and a professor of cell biology at the University Medical Centre, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. Krishna received his Ph.D in molecular Cell biology from the Max Planck Institute for Infections Biology in Berlin, Germany. After a brief stint as a postdoc, he started off with his own lab at the Institute of Medical Radiology and Cell Research at the University of Würzburg. Krishna’s lab focuses on understanding the molecular signalling machinery that drives fundamental cellular processes like cell division, cell death, cell migration and differentiation. Krishna is the first south Asian ever to be selected under any discipline for the highly competitive Emmy Noether Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and has been heading an independent research group at Goethe University in Frankfurt. Since 2014, he holds a prestigious Heisenberg Professorship of the DFG for Cell Biology, at the Research Centre for Immunotherapy at JGU, Mainz. He has selected to be a PLUS3 fellow of the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation and more recently he became a fellow of the Gutenberg Research College. He serves as a reviewer of many international grant agencies, major scientific journals and a member of the editorial boards of Cell death and Disease and FEBS Journal. Krishna has authored numerous publications in major scientific journals and has been an ardent mentor of young scholars and an enthusiastic promoter of science and education.