IMP contracts for academic positions are limited for a certain number of years, after which scientists at any level take the next step in their professional journey at other places. The IMP takes pride in the success of its alumni, including of course its former principal investigators, many of whom are now in leading academic positions at outstanding research institutions.
The IMP is an excellent stepping stone for any academic career. We are proud of the long list of former principal investigators who have moved up in the academic ranks. Their ties with the IMP are at the core of our global network of leading molecular biology research centres.
Former IMP Principal Investigators
The list below is in alphabetic order. Note that this list is a directory of former principal investigators only; we express our appreciation generally to our alumni on a separate page.
Gustav Ammerer
IMP Group Leader 1988-1992
Retired
Lisa Ballou
IMP Group Leader 1990-1995
Retired
Denise P. Barlow
IMP Group Leader 1988-1996
Passed away in 2017
Hartmut Beug
IMP Senior Scientist 1988-2010
Passed away in 2011
Adrian Bird
IMP Senior Scientist 1987-1990
Professor at Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh
Max Birnstiel
IMP Managing Director 1986-1996
Passed away in 2014
Gerhard Christofori
IMP Group Leader 1994-2001
Professor of Biochemistry at University of Basel - Department of Biomedicine
Carrie Cowan
IMP Group Leader 2006-2013
Director for Education, Santa Fe Institute
Matthew Cotten
IMP Group Leader 1993-1999
Professor in Viral Genomics, University of Glasgow
Barry Dickson
IMP Group Leader 1998-2003
IMP Senior Scientist and Managing Director 2006-2013
Group Leader at Janelia Research Campus
Frank Eisenhaber
IMP Group Leader, 1999-2007
Executive Director of the Bioinformatics Institute (BII), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
Michael Glotzer
IMP Group Leader 1997-2005
Professor at Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, The University of Chicago
Christine Hartmann
IMP Group Leader 2002-2012
Professor at the Medical Faculty University Münster, Institute for Experimental Musculoskeletal Medicine, Head of the Department for Bone and Skeletal Research
Lukas A. Huber
IMP Group Leader 1996-2002
Director of Cell Biology, Innsbruck Medical University
CSO, Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine
CSO, Austrian Drug Screening Institute
Thomas Jenuwein
IMP Group Leader, Senior Scientist 1993-2008
Director at Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
Ludger Klein
IMP Group Leader 2002-2007
Professor at Institute for Immunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University
Jürgen Knoblich
IMP Group Leader 1997-2004
Senior Scientist and Interim Director at Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA)
Thomas Marlovits
IMP & IMBA Joint Group Leader 2005-2017
Deputy Director, Center for Structural Systems Biology
Kim Nasmyth
IMP Senior Scientist and Managing Director 1988-2005
Senior Scientist and Whitley Professor of Biochemistry at University of Oxford – Department of Biochemistry
Retired
Annette Neubüser
IMP Group Leader 1998-2003
Professor at University of Freiburg, Institute for Biology 1
Martin Nicklin
IMP Group Leader 1988-1991
Senior Scientist at University of Sheffield – The Henry Wellcome Institute for Medical Research
Tillmann Schuster
IMP Group Leader 1988-1993
Retired
Peggy Stolt-Bergner
IMP Fellow 2006-2011
Boehringer Ingelheim, Vienna
Alipasha Vaziri
IMP Group Leader (joint with MFPL) 2011-2015
Professor, The Rockefeller University
Ernst Wagner
IMP Group Leader 1988-1992
Professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München – Department Pharmazie
Erwin Wagner
IMP Senior Scientist 1988-2008
Deputy Director 1997-2008
Medical University Vienna, Dermatology Department
Andreas Weith
IMP Group Leader 1990-1997
Passed away in 2019
Stefan Westermann
IMP Group Leader 2006-2015
Professor at University Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany
Martin Zenke
IMP Group Leader 1988-1995
Senior Professor at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany