Frank Grutzner Epigenetics 2013

Frank Grutzner

Professor Frank Grützner received his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin in 2001. In the same year he moved to the Australian National University where he led an international team that resolved the longstanding controversy about the complex sex chromosome system in the platypus. In 2005 he moved to the University of Adelaide, where he is associate Head Research and group leader at the School of Biological Sciences. Dr Grutzner has published extensively in leading international journals including Nature, Nature Genetics and Science. He has been instrumental in establishing monotremes as a key species for research in comparative genomics and mammalian evolution. Dr Grutzner is passionate about community engagement and initiated the award winning citizen science project EchidnaCSI. He has won several awards for his research including the Eppendorf Medal for the Young Australian Investigator (2005), the Tall Poppy Science Award (2007) and SA Science Excellence awards in Citizen Science (2021). His research has been supported by competitive ARC research fellowships and grants since 2003.