Founded an independent research institute, the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens.
Director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany.
Known for her role in deciphering the molecular mechanisms of the bacterial CRISPR/Cas9 immune system and repurposing it into a tool for genome editing.
She received a PhD at the Institut Pasteur in Paris and worked at scientific institutes in the US, Austria, Sweden and Germany, in addition to her native France.
Co-laureate of the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry, with Jennifer Doudna, for developing techniques for editing DNA.