Curriculum vitae of Frauke Gräter

Scientific Education
09/2002 - 11/2005 Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, China, and Max-Planck-Institute
of Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen, Germany: PhD studies
1999 - 2000
  • University of Kyoto, Japan: one-year exchange programme KUINEP
1998 - 2002 University of Heidelberg: Diploma studies of chemistry
1996 - 1998

University of Tübingen: Studies of chemistry (mid-term diploma)

Professional Record
since 01/2025 Honorary Professor, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg University
since 07/2024 Director Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
08/2023 – 07/2024 Guest professor at Ecole Polytechnique et Federale de Lausanne
(EPFL), Switzerland
2021-2022 Scientific Director, HITS
2019-2020 Deputy Scientific Director, HITS
07/2014 – 12/2024 Professor, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR),
Heidelberg University
07/2009 – 12/2024 Group leader, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
07/2007 – 07/2009 Max Planck Independent junior group leader “Protein Mechanics and Evolution” at the MPG-CAS Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB), Shanghai
08/2006 – 06/2007 Postdoc at Columbia University, Departments of Biology/Chemistry
12/2005 – 07/2006 Postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen

Other professional activities (selected)
since 2024 Member of the Senate and member of the evaluation panel, Leibniz Association
since 2021 Editorial Board Member, Biophysical Journal
since 2021 Co-Speaker, SIMPLAIX, a strategic research initiative
2019-2022 Co-Speaker of the Biological Physics division within the Condensed Matter Section of the German Physical Society
since 2019 Max Planck Fellow of Max Planck School Matter to Life
2019-2020 Fellow of the Marsilius-Kolleg, Heidelberg University
since 2019 Member of DFG-funded Graduate school ‘Tailored Scale-Bridging Approaches to Computational Nanoscience’ at KIT (GRK 2450)
2018-2024 Member of the Coordinating Committee of the Excellence Cluster 3DMM2O
2017-2019 Member of the Scientific Steering Committee, PRACE
2017-2020 Member of the Board of Directors, Interdisciplinary Center of Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University

Scholarships & Awards (selected)
2021 ERC Consolidator Grant ‘RADICOL’
2017 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for High Performance Computing
2007 Alexander von Humboldt foundation, Feodor-Lynen postdoc fellow
2002 Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation, PhD scholarship

Publications

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