Ute Krämer

Biography

Ute Krämer, Prof. Dr., DPhil, studied Biochemistry at the University of Hanover (DE) and came to Oxford in October 1992 to pursue a doctorate at the Department of Plant Sciences. After post-doctoral research as a NATO Fellow at Rutgers University (NJ, USA) and at the University of California San Diego (CA, USA), she was a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam (DE) and at the BioQuant Center of the University of Heidelberg (DE). She obtained a BioFuture 2000 Prize of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and a Heisenberg Fellowship. She was appointed as a Full Professor at Ruhr University Bochum (DE) in 2009. Her research addresses the molecular mechanisms underlying plant acclimation and evolutionary adaptation to soil composition. Ute Krämer is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), and she received a prestigious Advanced Grant of the European Research Council in 2018.