1. Ralf Reski is affiliated to the French Ecole superieure de biotechnologie Strasbourg and Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.
15 Facts About Ralf Reski
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Ralf Reski studied biology, chemistry and pedagogy at the Universities of Giessen and Hamburg.
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Ralf Reski was awarded his doctorate in Genetics in 1990 by the University of Hamburg and received his habilitation in General Botany in 1994.
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Ralf Reski was appointed Distinguished Professor and entitled Ordinarius at the University of Freiburg in 1999, where he became Head of the newly established Department of Plant Biotechnology.
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From 2001 until 2011, Reski was Director Plant Biotechnology at the Centre for Applied Biosciences.
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Ralf Reski is founding principal investigator of four Excellence Clusters: the Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, the Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies, Living, Adaptive and Energy-Autonomous Materials Systems, and of the Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine.
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Furthermore, Ralf Reski is a founding PI of the Freiburg Initiative for Systems Biology funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
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Ralf Reski was one of the board members of the International Union of Biological Sciences from 2009 to 2012.
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Since 2010, Ralf Reski is coordinator of QualFEEM, a TEMPUS-project for the improvement of Higher Education in the field of "environmental management and ecology" at the Russian Universities in Altai, Novosibirsk, Omsk and Tyumen.
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In 2011 Ralf Reski was co-founder of the Trinational Institute for Plant Research.
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In 2011 Ralf Reski was elected as lifetime member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
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In 2013 Ralf Reski became senior fellow at the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study.
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In 1998, Ralf Reski proposed the moss Physcomitrella patens as a model plant in biological research.
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In 2010, Ralf Reski established the International Moss Stock Center, which stores and freely distributes moss strains, transgenics and ecotypes.
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Ralf Reski is directly involved in Mossclone, a European project which started in 2012 and aims to develop an air quality monitoring tool by using devitalized moss clones.