Prof. Dr. Katarzyna Bozek - Curriculum Vitae
Education and professional career
since 2023: W3-Professor, Medical and Medizinische and Natural Sciences Faculty, University of Cologne
2022-2023: W2 Tenure Track-Professor, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne
2020 - 2022: JRG Junior Group Leader, CMMC Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Germany
2015 - 2019: Group Leader within Greg Stephens lab, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan
2011 - 2015: Postdoctoral fellow, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
2007 - 2011: PhD thesis, Max Planck Institute for Computer Sciences, Saarbrücken, Germany
2006 - 2007: Student, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Grants and fellowships
2020 - 2025: North Rhine Westphalia Return Program grant (NRW Rückkehrprogramm)
2020 - 2025: Junior Research Network of German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
2013 - 2015: Max Planck Society postdoctoral fellowship
2011 - 2014: Research grant of the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Young International Scientists
2011 - 2015: Chinese Academy of Sciences International Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers
Excerpt media coverage
Scientific American: Fats in the Brain May Help Explain How Human Intelligence Evolved 11 Jun 2015
The Economist: Muscled out. Human beings are brainy weaklings 31 May 2014
New York Times: Stronger Brains, Weaker Bodies 27 May 2014
National Geographics: Humans Evolved Weak Muscles to Feed Brain's Growth 28 May 2014
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Die Kraft der Affen 28 May 2014
Quanta Magazine: How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains 10 Nov 2015
Video abstract about brain lipidome evolution published in Neuron, 18 Feb 2015