Top researcher Dana Branzei has been selected by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the Humboldt Professorship 2025. The internationally renowned expert in molecular biology is currently researching the mechanisms of DNA repair at the Research Institute of Molecular Oncology in Milan, thereby contributing to the fundamental understanding of cancer development and therapy. She is to be appointed to the Research Center One Health Ruhr of the Research Alliance Ruhr at the University of Duisburg-Essen. The top researcher has already received numerous awards, including two prestigious prizes from the European Research Council.

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Born in Romania, Dr. Dana Branzei has been a scientist at the Institute of Molecular Oncology (AIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology) in Milan, Italy, since 2008 and Research Director of the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) since 2020. After her studies in Japan, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the RIKEN Institute in Wako. She has been an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) since 2016. She was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2016 after successfully obtaining an ERC Starting Grant. In her home country of Romania, Dana Branzei was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit for her scientific achievements.

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Dr. Dana Banzei
Website: 
https://www.ifom.eu/en/cancer-research/research-labs/research-lab-branzei.php

Marc Levine is one of the world's leading experts in the field of algebraic geometry. His outstanding and innovative contributions to his field, most recently his theory of algebraic cobordism, have been well received and recognized with numerous awards, including the Wolfgang Paul Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2001. Levine is to become one of the directors of the planned Institute for Algebra at the University of Duisburg-Essen, building on his earlier stays in Essen. With Levine, a breadth of mathematical methods is to be covered there in future that is unique in Germany and would only be found in a few places worldwide.

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• Born in 1952 in the USA, currently at Northeastern University, Boston, USA
• Studies and doctorate in the USA, from 1979 to 1984
• Assistant Professor in Philadelphia and from 1986 to 1988
• Winner of the Wolfgang Paul Prize 2001
• Associate Professor in Boston. Full professor there since then, numerous visiting professorships, mainly in the USA and Germany. In Bonn and Essen in 2002 as Wolfgang Paul Award winner and in 2006 as Humboldt Research Award winner.

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Prof. Dr. Marc Levine
University of Duisburg-Essen
Faculty of Mathematics
Universitätsstraße
45141 Essen

Phone: +49 201 183 3114
Web: https://www.esaga.uni-due.de/marc.levine/