Julian Schroeder - Keynote

Distinguished Professor, Torrey Mesa Research Institute Chair in Plant Science at UC San Diego - School of Biological Sciences

Keynote

Julian Schroeder did his PhD research at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry with Erwin Neher and was a Feodor von Lynen Humboldt Foundation postdoctoral fellow at UCLA School of Medicine. He received awards, including the Presidential Young Investigator Award (NSF), the ASPB Charles Albert Shull Award (1997), a DFG Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Prize, the Blasker Award in Environmental Science, the ASPB Stephen Hales Prize (2021), an Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Prize (2022), is Churchill Overseas Fellow at Cambridge University (2019-) and with collaborators shared the Cozzarelli Prize from PNAS (2010) and a top 10 breakthrough of the year selected by Science (2009). He has served on several advisory boards, including Co-Director of the Food and Fuel for the 21st Century Center. He was von Humboldt Fellow at the TU Munich and the MPI for Biochemistry, visiting Professor at the ETH Zurich and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences - Leopoldina and Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science.