Kristin Teßmar-Raible

Professor of Chronobiology

Group: Mechanisms of time and light effects on animals

Positions

Since April 2022-

Professor for Marine Chronobiology, Alfred Wegener Institute; Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research// University of Oldenburg, Germany

Since Nov. 2017-

Professor for Chronobiology, University of Vienna, Austria

April 2017- March 2020

Vice-Dean Max Perutz Labs, Centre for Molecular Biology, University of Vienna, Austria

March 2015- Nov. 2017

Berta Karlik Professor (special full professorship), Max Perutz Labs, Centre for Molecular Biology, Univ. of Vienna, Austria

June 2008 -

Group leader, Max Perutz Labs, Centre for Molecular Biology, Univ. of Vienna, Austria

2004-2008

Post-doc, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany (Arendt lab)

2001-2004

2000-2001

2001

 2000-2001

 1997/1998

PhD student, Univ. of Marburg, Germany (Hassel lab)

visiting scientist, EMBL, Heidelberg; (Wittbrodt lab)

visiting scientist, Univ. of Cambridge, UK; (Harris lab)

Diploma student (thesis), EMBL, Heidelberg; (Wittbrodt lab)

visiting researcher, Mass.General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; (Ruvkun lab)

Selected managerial and advisory responsibilities

2023-2027

2020- 

2019- 

 

2015-2022

 

 2011-2019

EBRS Board of Directors

SAB IGF Lyon

VBC-wide VIP CoFund post-doctoral programme steering board 

 

Vice dean Vienna Doctoral School “Cognition, Behavior and Neuroscience”(CoBeNe)

 

VBC PhD programme steering board

Selected Awards

2021

2021

2019

 

2015-2019

2014-2018

2013

2012-2021

Ignaz-Lieben Prize, Austrian 

EMBO member 

21st Stephen M. Schütze Memorial Award, Columbia University, New York

 

EMBO-YIP

FENS/Kavli Network of Excellence Scholar (2014-2018)

Austrian Neuroscience Association Otto Loewi Award

 Member and elected delegate of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Selected Grants

2026- 2029

 

2024-2029

 

2024-2028

 

 

2024-2027

 

 

 2020-2025

 

 

2020-2024

MitoCycle: Metabolic Rhythms and Mitochondrial Adaptation in Mussels (#415984732, TE1429/1-2), DFG (role: participating partner), 191.150 EUR

Velux Foundation: Towards an understanding of photoreceptor complexity: disentangling light sensing architecture in coral reefs from shallow to the deep blue. (role: participating partner), 131.400 EUR

Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Cluster of Excellence Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease (role: participating partner), 511.660EUR 

 

 HFSP #RGP021/2024: “Temporal structures in complex deep-sea versus surface marine life: from molecules to communities” $1.012.500 (role: lead PI/ network coordinator, 4 applicants)

 

ERC-CoG2018 Mari.Time “Dissecting the mechanistic basis of moon-controlled monthly timing mechanisms in marine environments” 2 mio EUR #ERC-CoG 819952

 

FWF SFB #78, Project: The impact of circadian clock genes on progenitor differentiation and adult stem cells, 301.899 EUR