Jörg Vogel

Jörg Vogel is the managing director of the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), and full professor for molecular infection biology at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He studied biochemistry at Humboldt University Berlin and Imperial College London, graduating with a doctoral thesis on group II intron splicing (1999). He spent his postdoctoral years on the discovery of bacterial small RNAs at Uppsala University, Sweden (2000-2001) and Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel (2002-2003), before starting an independent research group at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin (2004-2009). He is an elected member of EMBO, the German National Academy of Sciences, and the American and European Academies of Microbiology. He has received numerous awards, including the DFG Leibniz Prize (2017). He currently serves as the Chair of the DFG Committee on Scientific Instrumentation, is a member of the EMBO Long-term Fellowship Committee, and serves as an editorial board member or editor of Molecular Cell, EMBO Journal, Nucleic Acids Research, RNA Biology Molecular Microbiology, mBio.