Stefan Grünert is an accomplished life scientist, co-authoring more than 16 publications with in excess of 3,400 cumulative citations and several patents. He is co-founder of biolution and was managing director of “dialog gentechnik”, a national Austrian association for science communication, and regularly reviews grant proposals for the EC.
At biolution he is mainly responsible for supporting clients in their research proposals. His critical mind, strategic thinking, and broad scientific background have enabled him to make crucial contributions to a wide variety of national and EU-funded projects. Currently, his focus area is developing a suitable research plan for a research idea.
He maintains an extensive network of contacts amongst Austrian and European life scientists, as well as with funders and national contact points. In his opinion, the outstanding scientists and research-intensive SMEs in his network are invaluable assets to biolution.
Stefan studied biology at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) and holds a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge. He has 15 years of experience in biomedical research, including post-doctoral placements at the Gurdon Institute (Cambridge, UK) and the Research Institute for Molecular Pathology (Vienna, Austria). For more than a decade, he has accumulated experience in grant and research management, with positions at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, St. Anna Kinderkrebsforschung, dialog gentechnik, and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer Research. Following his experience, he has cultivated a longstanding interest in science communication and science writing, regularly writing press releases in English and German. He also revises texts for general interest publications in both languages.
Within biolution, Stefan has been involved in successful applications for more than 10 EU-funded cooperative research projects, several ERC grants, and numerous national grants. Additionally, in his other positions, he has contributed to further successful proposals at both national and international levels. Regularly, he initiates or contributes to national science communication events, including “Lange Nacht der Forschung” and “European Researchers’ Night”. Stefan coordinated the Austrian contribution to the European Researchers’ Night in 2009 and successfully applied for two science communication actions in FP7.
“There are many ways to ruin a good project, but nothing makes a bad project good.”
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