ERC: Maria Leptin re-appointed as President

Maria Leptin is re-appointed by the European Commission as President of the ERC (European Research Council) until 30/09/2027, the ERC announces on 01/10/2025.

The president of the ERC since 2021 earned her doctorate from the Basel Institute for Immunology in Switzerland in 1983. She began her career the following year with a postdoctoral position at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.

From 1989 to 1994, she led a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Germany, before becoming a professor at the Genetics Institute of the University of Cologne, where she also headed a research team.

In 2001, she was a visiting professor at the École normale supérieure in France, and between 2004 and 2005 she worked as a visiting researcher at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, United Kingdom. She went on to become the director of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) in 2010.

Jan Palmowski, Secretary General of The Guild, reacts on LinkedIn: "Maria's reappointment is really outstanding news for Europe's R&I community. At a time when R&I…