Enrico Schleiff
Born(1971-11-17)17 November 1971
Luckenwalde, East Germany (now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsCell biology
InstitutionsGoethe University Frankfurt

Enrico Schleiff (born 17 November 1971) is a German biologist and physicist, and the president of the Goethe University Frankfurt, serving since 1 January 2021.

Career

Early career

Schleiff studied physics at the Charles University in Prague from 1990 to 1992 and at the University of Mainz from 1992 to 1995. He completed his master's thesis at the University of Basel in 1995 and then received a Ph.D. from the Department of Biochemistry at McGill University in Montreal. He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Kiel and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he completed his habilitation in cell biology and botany in 2003.

University of Frankfurt

Schleiff has been a professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt since 2007. He was elected vice president in 2012 and held this office until 2018. In 2020 he was elected president of the university in succession to Birgitta Wolff. He was chairman of the board of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies from 2018 to 2020.[1][2][3][4][5]

Other activities

Recognition

Schleiff received the Eduard Strasburger Prize of the German Botanical Society in 2004.[14]

References

  1. ^ Enrico Schleiff, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
  2. ^ "Goethe-Universität — Präsident der Goethe-Universität". www.uni-frankfurt.de.
  3. ^ "Biologe Enrico Schleiff wird Präsident der Goethe-Universität". 8 July 2020.
  4. ^ Zoske, Sascha. "Uni-Präsident Enrico Schleiff: "Ich glaube an eine ,Generation Corona' – aber im positiven Sinn"". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  5. ^ Zoske, Sascha. "Neuer Uni-Präsident: Lieber ohne Amtskette". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  6. ^ Board of Trustees Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt.
  7. ^ Board of Trustees Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology (ITMP).
  8. ^ Board of Trustees Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt.
  9. ^ Board of Trustees Archived 27 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine House of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt.
  10. ^ Board of Trustees Archived 8 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine Institute for Law and Finance (ILF).
  11. ^ Board of Trustees Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS).
  12. ^ Paul Ehrlich Foundation: Board of Trustees Goethe University Frankfurt.
  13. ^ Supervisory Board University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt.
  14. ^ "Young scientists awarded with the Strasburger Prize". Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft e.V. (DBG) (in German). Retrieved 7 April 2022.
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