Manuela Baccarini, Univ.-Prof. Dr.

Manuela Baccarini, Professor of Cell Signalling at the Max Perutz Labs of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna, serves as Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs since 1 October 2022 onwards. Manuela Baccarini was born in Italy and completed her doctoral studies at the Sapienza University of Rome. Following positions at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg, at the Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine in Hanover, and at the Albert Einstein College of the Yeshiva University in New York, Baccarini joined the Department of Microbiology, Immunobiology and Genetics at the Centre for Molecular Biology of the University of Vienna. From 2007 tto 2017 Baccarini held the position of Vice-Dean and assistant director of the Max Perutz Labs. Up until September 2022 Baccarini led the doctoral programme „Vienna BioCenter PhD program“ of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna and was director of the study program „Molecular Biology“ (University of Vienna) and „Molecular Bioscience“ (joint PhD study program University of Vienna/ Medical University of Vienna). Manuela Baccarini is a member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) and corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Education and academic career

Since 2009: Professor of Cell Signalling, Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna

1997-2009: Associated professor, Department of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Vienna

1997: “Venia legendi” in microbiology awarded by the University of Vienna

1994-1997: Guest professor, Department of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Vienna

1994: “Venia legendi” in immunology, University of Haover, Germany

1990-1994: Assistant professor, Fraunhofer Institutes for Toxicology and Molecular Biology, Hanover, Germany

Functions and memberships

2020-2022: Head, Vienna Biocenter PhD Programme, a doctoral school of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna

2021- 2022: Director of studies, joint doctoral programme in Molecular Biosciences, University of Vienna/Medical University of Vienna

2017-2022: Director of studies, doctoral programme in Molecular Biology, University of Vienna

2017-2022: Speaker, doctoral school (Dk-plus) on signalling pathways for the regulation of cellular homoeostasis

2016-2020: Head, Vienna Doctoral School for Molecules of Life, a joint project by the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna

2009-2015: Speaker, doctoral programme in Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Signalling

2009: Member of the steering board for the new doctoral programme, University of Vienna

2007-2017: Vice-Dean, Centre for Molecular Biology and deputy academic head, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna

Since 2005: Research fellow Center for Economic olica Research (CEPR London)

Editorial boards:

Since 2020: Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Since 2018: The Journal of Cell Biology

Since 2016: Cancer Research

Since 2016: The FEBS Journal

Since 2015: EMBO Reports

2006-2009: Carcinogenesis

2012: Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

2010: Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Reviews in the past ten years

Ad-hoc reviewer for journals: Cell, Cell Reports, Science, Science Advances, Science Translational Medicine, Nature Communications, Development, Blood, Cancer Research, Life Science Alliance, Oncogene, EMBO Journal, EMBO Reports

Funding bodies:

MMember of reviewer committees for excellence, evaluation and funding in Austria, Germany, France, Spain, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, United States, Hong Kong

2019-2022: Member of the committees for the EMBO Global Investigator Network

2011-2015: Member and chair (2015) of the LS3 Cellular and Developmental Biology Panel for the award of ERC Advanced Investigator Grants

Scientific advisory boards

Since 2020: Scientific advisory board, Precision Oncology Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

2015: Member of the Novartis Advisory Board for MAPK- and KRAS-controlled tumours

2013-2017: Member of the board of the Berlin School of Integrative Oncology

2013-2022: Member of the external scientific advisory board, Department of Molecular Genetics, Montpellier, France

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