MAX PLANCK RESEARCH GROUP WICKSTRÖM

Sara Annika Wickström
Group Leader (Max Planck Research Group)
Date and place of birth
1976, Finland
Nationality
Finnish
Scientific Career
2018-present | Associate Professor, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki Memberships |
2010-present | Max Planck Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany |
2005-2010 | Postdoctoral fellow, Laboratory of Prof. Reinhard Fässler, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany |
2004-2005 | General Practitioner, Viiskulma Health Care Center, Helsinki, Finland |
2001-2004 | PhD Student and Research Assistant of Cancer Biology, Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki, Finland |
Education
2004 | Ph.D. (Dr. Med. Sci), University of Helsinki, Finland |
2001 | Licensed to practice, National Board of Health, Finland |
2001 | M.D., University of Helsinki, Finland |
Awards
2017 | Frontiers Lecture, European Society for Dermatological Research |
2017 | Binder Innovation Prize, German Society for Cell Biology |
2011 | Scholarship of the Young Collegium, North-Rhine Westphalia Academy of Arts and Sciences |
2008 - 2010 | Postdoctoral fellowship, Max Planck Society |
2005 - 2008 | Postdoctoral fellowship, Sigrid Juselius Foundation, Finland |
2005 | Research Award, Academy of Finland (Awarded to fund postdoctoral studies) |
2005 | Research Award, Finnish Cultural Foundation (Awarded for outstanding PhD) |
2004 | Biomedical Thesis Award, University of Helsinki, Finland |
Memberships
2020 | EMBO Member |
2016- | Editorial Board Member - Cell Stress |
2016- | Editorial Board Member - Biology of the Cell |
2016- 2017 | Selection committee member for ATIP-Avenir research program, Inserm, France |
2015- 2017 | Grant review panel member of French National Academy of Sciences (ANR) |
2015 | Member, German Society for Cell Biology |
2013- | Member of Steering Committee and Faculty Member, Cologne Graduate School of Ageing |
2013- | Executive Board Member, SFB 829, University of Cologne |
2013- | Member European Society for Dermatological Research |
2013- | Editorial Board Member, Matrix Biology |
2013- | Editorial Board Member, Experimental Dermatology |
2013- 2016 | Institute representative to the Biomedical Section of the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society |
2012- | Member of the Cologne Cluster of Excellence in Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-associated Diseases (CECAD) |
2012- | Council Member, International Society for Matrix Biology |
2011- 2015 | Member of Young Collegium, North-Rhine Westphalia Academy of Arts and Sciences |