Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Susanna Zierler

Since 04/2011 Group Leader, Walther Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
05 - 12/2010 Scientist, The Queen’s Medical Center, Center for Biomedical Research,
John A. Burn’s School of Medicine, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.

2007 - 2010 Postdoctoral Fellow in Biophysics, The Queen’s Medical Center, Honolulu, U.S.A.
Supervisors: Drs. Penner and A. Fleig
10/2007 Master’s Degree in Mathematics and Biology & Environmental Studies, Teacher’s Training,
University of Salzburg, Austria
03/2007 PhD in Cell Biology, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria, Mentor: Dr. H.H. Kerschbaum
2004 - 2007 Doctoral Fellow, Department of Cell Biology, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Austria
05/2006 PENS School, The Brain as Target for Inflammatory Processes, Berlin
03/2004 Master’s Degree in Biology/Genetics, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Dr. Kerschbaum

2012 - 2016 Marie Curie Fellowship, FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG grant no. 322185, Research Executive Agency,
Brussels, Belgium
2012 DGPT Poster Price awarded by the Naunyn Schmiedinger’s Archives of Pharmacology,
78th DGPT Congress, Dresden, Germany
2008 - 2010 Erwin-Schroedinger Auslandsstipendium (no. J2784), Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant,
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
2009 ECI Travel Scholarship Award (2nd European Congress of Immunology, Berlin)
2006 Sackler-Prize (Mundipharma) of the University of Salzburg, Austria
2006 PENS School, Full Scholarship Award, Berlin, May 14 – 20
2004 – 2006 DOC-FFORTE (no. 21686) Doctoral Fellowship Grant, Austrian Academy of Science (OEAW)
2004 FENS/IBRO WERC stipend (5th Forum of European Neuroscience, Vienna)
2004 Research Fellowship, PhD Thesis Performance Recognition Award,
Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Austria
2003 Research Fellowship, Diploma Thesis, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Austria

2006 Prof. Jörg R. Weber, Institute of Anatomy, Department of Cell and Neurobiology,
Oskar-Hertwig House, Humboldt University Medical School Charité, Berlin, Germany
2005 Prof. Beatrix Grubeck-Loebenstein, Institute for Biomedical Aging Research (IBA) of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
2004/2005 Prof. Stephan Grissmer, Department of Applied Physiology, University of Ulm, Germany
2004 Prof. Claudia Eder, Department of Physiology, Medical Department Charité;
Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany