Holger Puchta

October 1979 - September 1985	Study of biochemistry (Diplom) at the universities of Tübingen and Munich
October 1985 - October 1986	Diploma thesis on viroids in the group of Prof. Dr. H.L. Sänger at the Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Munich
November 1986 - September 1989	PhD thesis on viroids in the group of Prof. Dr. H.L. Sänger at the Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Munich
October 1989 - July 1995	Research Fellow in the group of Prof. Dr. B. Hohn at Friedrich Miescher-Institut, Basel, Switzerland Research area: Homologous DNA recombination in plants
August 1995 - August 2002	Leader of the group "DNA recombination" at the Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK) Gatersleben, Germany Research area: DNA recombination in plants
June 2000	Habilitation at the Martin-Luther University, Halle
since September 2002	Professor (chair Botany II) at the University of Karlsruhe (TH)
October 2004 - September 2005	Vice Dean of Biology
October 2005 -	Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences
September 2007 October 2007 -	Vice Dean of Research
2002 - 2008 since 2008	Associate Editor "Plant Molecular Biology" Associate Editor "The Plant Journal"
2011 - 2016	ERC Advanced Grant “COMREC”
2017 - 2022	ERC Advanced Grant “CRISBREED”
2023 - 2028	Reinhart Koselleck-Projekt der DFG
since 2024	elected member of the German national academy of science Leopoldina
since 2024	elected member of the European academy Academia Europaea