Silke Hauf

Education

1992 - 1999    Medical School of the University of Wuerzburg, Germany, and the University of Caen, France

Clinical Electives at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; CHU Montpellier, France; University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Second Shanghai Medical University, China

2000    M.D., University of Wuerzburg, Germany

Professional Experience

1999 - 2003    Postdoctoral Fellow with Jan-Michael Peters at the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria

2003 - 2005    Postdoctoral Fellow with Yoshinori Watanabe at the University of Tokyo, Japan

2005 - 2013    Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tuebingen, Germany

2014 - 2018    Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, USA

since 2018   Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, USA

Fellowships and Awards

1992 - 1999    Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung)

1995 - 1996    Scholarship of the University of Caen, France

2000 - 2001    Postdoctoral Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 

2004    Research Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

2004    Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, declined

2004 - 2005    Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Long Term Fellowship

2006 - 2007    Young Leaders in Science Program of the Schering Foundation

2017 - 2022 Outstanding Research Award (2017), Outstanding Teaching Award (2019), Outstanding Service Award (2022), Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech

2023 Virginia Tech Sally Bohland Award for Exceptional Leadership in Access and Inclusion