Niko Geldner

Niko Geldner studied biology at the Universities of Mainz, Bordeaux 2 and Tübingen. In Tübingen, he did his PhD in the lab of Gerd Juergens , working on the role of GNOM in Arabidopsis embryogenesis and the polar localisation of the PIN1 auxin efflux carrier. In 2004 he went as as an EMBO and HFSP fellow to the Salk Institute in La Jolla in the lab of Joanne Chory, working on the trafficking of the steroid receptor kinase BRI1 and the development of the WAVE sub-cellular membrane marker set. In 2007 he started as an Assistant Professor at the University of Lausanne, being promoted to Associate Professor in 2012 and Full Professor in 2018. He was awarded a Starting and Consolidator grant of the European Research Council (ERC) in 2007 and 2013, respectively. In 2011 he became an EMBO Young Investigator and was elected EMBO member in 2017.