Prof. Dr. Axel Meyer

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Professor Axel Meyer, Ph.D.
Lehrstuhl für Zoologie/Evolutionsbiologie
Fakultät Biologie
​Room M806
Universität Konstanz
D-78457 Konstanz/Germany
Tel. + 49 (07531) 88-4163, 88-3069
Fax + 49 (07531) 88-3018
Skype: dr.axelmeyer
E-mail: axel.meyer@uni-konstanz.de
Short CV






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​Foto by: Katharina Lütscher
Positions held to date
  • since 1997, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz.
  • 1993 – 1997, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
  • 1993 – 1997, Member of the program in Genetics, State University of New York, Stony Brook.
  • 1990 – 1993, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
  • 1988 – 1990, Alfred P. Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Evolution, Department of Biochemistry, University of California at Berkeley (with Prof. Allan C. Wilson).

Education
  • 1984 – 1988, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Zoology and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Ph.D program.
  • 1986 – 1987, Harvard University, Graduate Program in the Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology and the Museum of Comparative Zoology.
  • 1983 – 1984, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Zoology, Master's program.
  • 1982  University of Miami, Florida.
  • 1982, Universität Kiel.
  • 1979 – 1982, Universität Marburg, Vordiplom, B.A.
  • 1970 – 1979, Katharineum zu Lübeck.

Academic Honors, Awards and Fellowships (partial list)​
  • 2022 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS Fellow).
  • 2020 Associate of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
  • 2020 Honorary Chair at the Station Zoologica A. Dohrn, Napoli, Italy.
  • ​2019 Elected IHM (International Honorary Member) of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  • 2018 Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei, Tartufari International Prize in Mollecular, Cellular, Evolutionary Biology.
  • 2017 - 2018 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
  • 2012 Member of the Academia europaea.
  • 2012 Member Hector Academy.
  • 2012  Hector Prize 2011 of the Hector II Foundation.
  • 2012 - 2017 Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC).
  • 2010 Carus Prize of the City of Schweinfurt.
  • 2009  Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).     
  • 2009 Carus Medal of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
  • 2009 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
  • 2009 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
  • 2008 – 2009 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) zu Berlin.
  • 2008 EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences.
  • 2008 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
  • 2007 - 2022 among the Cicero Magazin's 500 leading public intellectuals in Germany.
  • 2007 “Hot 100”authors of BioMed Central journals.
  • 2007 ISI Highly Cited – the world’s 250 most cited researchers in Plant & Animal Sciences.
  • 2000 Akademiepreis der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
  • 1996 – 1997 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.          
  • 1996 – 1997 Miller Fellowship - Visiting Research Professorship, Departments of Integrative Biology and Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley.
  • 1990  Young Investigator Prize, American Society of Naturalists.
  • 1988  Kofoid Award in Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
  • 1987  Raney Award, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
  • 1986 – 1987, University of California Fellowship.
  • 1985 Sigma Xi Honor Society.
  • 1985 Excellence in Teaching Award, University of California, Berkeley.
  • 1985  Margarete T. Kirby Award in Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
  • 1982 – 1984 Fulbright Fellowship (German and American Governments).
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​Bibliometrics
  • Google Scholar: h-index=122, > 57,000 citations, ~ 500 publications, Link
    Among Germany's most cited and the world’s most cited evolutionary biologists according to Google Scholar.
  • ISI ResearcherID C-9826-2009 (485 publications, >34,000 citations, h-index 95) Link​
  • Total number ISI-indexed=462, sum times cited > 33,000 average # citations/article= 70.30 h-index=93.
  • ORCID Link
  • Scopus: h-index 95 Link
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Named Lectures
  • 2016, BESE Distinguished Lecture, King Abdullah University for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.
  • 2016, Joan Marsden Lecture, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.Link
  • 2014, Inaugural Susumo Ohno Memorial Lecture, City of Hope Hope, Los Angeles, USA.
  • 2013, Carl Friedrich von Siemens Lecture, Munich, Germany.
  • 2012, Peter and Rosemary Grant Lecture, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
  • 2009, Berhard Rensch Lecture, University of Münster, Germany.
  • 2007, BioZentrums-Lecture University of Würzburg, Germany.
  • 2006, Ernst Mayr Lecture - Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
  • 2005, Van Leeuwenhoek Lecture in BioScience, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • 2003, Johannes Müller Vorlesung, Department of Biology, Free University of Berlin.
  • 1998, Johannes Müller Vorlesung, Department of Biology, Free University of Berlin.
  • 1996, Swets and Zeitlinger Lecture, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

​Guestprofessorships:
  • 2006                 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Dept. of Biology, University of Ottawa, Canada.
  • 2000 - 2002     Visiting Scholar, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley.
  • 2006                 Visiting Scientist, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA.
  • 2000 - 2001     Visiting Scientist, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA.
  • 1997 - 2000     Visiting Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University.
  • 1996 - 1997     Miller Visiting Research Professor, UC-Berkeley - (Dept. of Integrative Biology & Molecular and Cell Biology).
  • 2003                 Guest Professorship at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (declined).
       
Job offers (that I declined): 
  • 1993 Ass. Professorship, University of Washington, USA.
  • 1993 Full Professorship, Imperial College London, UK.
  • 1993 Full Professorship, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.
  • 1993 Full Professorship, University of Regensburg, Germany.
  • 1994 Full Professorship, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • 1997 Ass. Professorship, University of California-Berkeley, USA.
  • 2001 Full Professorship, University of Hamburg, Germany.
  • 2010 Full Professorship, University of Cologne, Germany.
  • 2015 Full Professorship, Imperial College London, UK.
      
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