Zsuzsanna Izsvak's Biography

Zsuzsanna Izsvak, Head/Professor, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine

Zsuzsanna Izsvák received her PhD in 1993 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary. After a postdoctoral period at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA, she returned to Europe. She held a long-term fellowship from EMBO and worked at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam between 1997 and 1999. She joined the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin in 1999. In 2004, her research was evaluated by the European Science Foundation (ESF) as “strategically important” for Europe and was awarded by the European Young Investigator Award (EURYI) in 2004. In 2004 she has established her own research group, “Mobile DNA“, at the Max-Delbrück-Center in Berlin. Between 2009-2011 she was a guest professor at the Medical University of Debrecen, in Hungary. In 2011 she was entitled to the title of D.Sc of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. From 2011 she has a permanent group leader position at the Max-Delbrück-Center in Berlin. In 2012, her proposal has been selected for funding by the European Research Council (ERC Advanced).