Biography Joanna Rorbach
Associated Research Group Rorbach
Scientific Career |
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| since 2017 |
Group Leader
Max Planck Institute Biology of Ageing, Karolinska Institute Laboratory, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2016 |
Visiting Scientist and Marie Curie International Career Grant Fellow
SciLifeLab, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2009 - 2016 |
Postdoctoral research fellow
Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK |
Education |
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| 2009 |
Ph.D. in Biology, Mentor: Prof. Z. Lightowlers
Institute for Aging and Health, Newcastle University, UK |
| 2004 |
M.Sc. in Molecular Biology
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Poland |
Awards |
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| 2022 | Fellowship at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) |
| 2017 | Wallenberg Academy Fellowship |
| 2017 | Ake Wibergs Fellowship |
Third-party
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| 2023 - 2027 | Karolinska Institute Consolidator Grant |
| 2023 - 2024 | Wallenberg Scholar |
| 2022 | Wallenberg Scholar |
| 2022 - 2025 | Swedish Research Council Grant |
| 2022 - 2025 | Horizon MSCA |
| 2021 - 2024 | KID Founding |
| 2020 - 2025 |
Wallenberg Research Grant
‘Mitochondrial Methyltransferases -from discovery to disease’ |
| 2019 - 2024 |
Wallenberg Research Grant
‘Birth of mitochondrial ribosome’ |
| 2019 - 2020 | Wenner Gren Fellowship |
| 2018 - 2028 | Wallenberg Academy Fellowship |
| 2018 - 2022 | CSC-KI graduate fellowship |
| 2016 - 2019 | Marie Curie International Grant |
Memberships
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| 2021 - 2022 | Faculty Chairperson - Department of Moleular Biochemistry and Biophysics (MBB), Karolinska Institute, Sweden |
| 2019 | Editor of the book ‘Mitochondrial gene expression’ Methods in Molecular Biology series |
| 2019 | Guest editor of the special issue of IJMS “Synthesis and assembly of the mitochondrially encoded proteins” |
| 2019 - present | Co-organizer of the monthly seminar series “Science@Biomedicum” |
| 2017 - 2021 | Organiser of the weekly Department Seminar Series |
| 2017 - present | Grant evaluator for Human Frontier Science Program ERC, Polish National Science Centre, Agence Nationale de la Recherche - Karolinska Institute |
| 2013 | Editor of the book ‘Polyadenylation: Methods and Protocols’ Methods in Molecular Biology series |