Mark Stitt
Director
Metabolic networks
Metabolomic Discoveries
Sweden
Biography
Mark Stitt is the director of the department metabolic networks at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany. He did his PhD in the laboratory of Tom ap Rees. In 1978 he moved to Germany, where he worked as a PostDoc in the group of Hans Heldt in Munich. He was appointed Associate Professor for Plant Biochemistry at University of Bayreuth in 1986, and then moved in 1991 to the University of Heidelberg, where he was Full Professor and Director of the Botany Institute. In 2000, he became Director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm. Marks research mission is to carry out a system oriented approach in order to understand the synthesis and regulation of metabolites that are important for storage, transport, adaptation and signaling in plants. In 2008 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Umea, Sweden, and in 2009 was elected to the Leopoldina National Academy of Science. Mark has over 300 peer-reviewed publications.
Research Interest
metabolic networks
