Biography Stephanie Panier

Max Planck Research Group Panier

Scientific Career

Since 2020 Max Planck Research Group Leader
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
Since 2020 Principal Investigator
Institute for Genome Stability in Aging and Disease, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne
2013 - 2019 Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof. Dr. Simon Boulton
at the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
2008 - 2013 PhD Student with Prof. Dr. Daniel Durocher
at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and at the Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Canada
2001 - 2006 Student of Biology
at the Department of Biology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Education

2008 - 2013       Graduate studies
Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Canada
2001 - 2006 Undergraduate studies                                                                                                                Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Germany

Prizes / Awards

2013 Vivash Award for best PhD thesis at the Department of Molecular Genetics
University of Toronto, Canada

Third-party
funding

2023 - 2026 DFG Research Unit FOR5504
2023 FEBS Excellence Award
2013 - 2014    EMBO Long-Term Fellowship   
2010 - 2013 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship
2008 - 2010 PhD Fellowship of the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
2007 EIRR21st Fellowship - Excellence in Radiation Research for the 21st Century of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Scientific Activities /
Memberships

Since 2021 Member - German-Israeli research network “Minerva Center for Biological Mechanisms of Healthy Aging”
Since 2020 German Association of Ageing Research (minute keeper since 2021)
Since 2020 German Society for Research on DNA Repair (advisory board since 2022)
Since 2020 Principal Investigator - Cologne Excellence Cluster “Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases” (CECAD), University of Cologne, Germany
Service to Scientific
Community
2023 - 2026 Vice coordinator
Research Group FOR5504 of the German Research Council, Physiological causes and consequences of genome instability, University of Cologne and Max Planck Insitute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
Since 2022 MPI-Age institute representative
Biology and Medicine Section (BMS) of the Max Planck Society’s scientific council
2021 - 2022 Deputy Gender Equality Officer
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
Go to Editor View