Lea Dietrich, Minerva Fast Track Fellow

Personal Data

Nationality: German

Education and Positons

06/2025 – present
Minerva Fast Track Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Department of Synaptic Plasticity headed by Erin Schuman, Frankfurt, Germany

11/2024 – 06/2025
Postdoc with Erin Schuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany

02/2023 - 11/2024
Postdoc with Werner Kühlbrandt, Max Planck Institute of BIophysics, Frankfurt, Germany

08/2016 - 02/2023
PhD with Werner Kühlbrandt, Max Planck Institute of BIophysics, Frankfurt, Germany (summa cum laude)

11/2016 - 02/2023
Goethe University, Frankfurt (Main), Germany, Course of studies: Biochemistry, PhD

03/2016 - 11/2016
Master Thesis with Kirsten Bacia, ZIK HALOmem, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

10/2014 - 11/2016
Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, Course of studies: Biochemistry, M.Sc.

05/2014 - 08/2014
Bachelor thesis with Kirsten Bacia, ZIK HALOmem, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

10/2011 - 10/2014
Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, Course of studies: Biochemistry, B.Sc.

Awards and Prizes

2023
FOR2848 “Nanoscale Architecture and Heterogeneity of the Mitochondrial Inner Membrane” (DFG) Start-up funding

2025
Otto Hahn Medal
Minerva Fast Track Fellowship, MPG