User:Volker Wiersdorff (EMBO)

From 2012 to 2024 I was responsible for matters related to the EMBO Membership and Elections at EMBO, the European Molecular Biology Organization. I had worked for EMBO in different functions since 1997. My aim was to add relevant information about EMBO and its communities of scientists to Wikipedia. Since EMBO is an international organisation incorporated as non-profit under Swiss law and funded by the governments of the 31 member states of the EMBC, my contributions are not intended to have an advertising character. In fact I do not believe EMBO and its activities need much advertising.

I graduated from the University of Würzburg to join the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg in 1992. I am a biochemist, developmental biologist and molecular geneticist by training. Following a PhD awarded by the University of Heidelberg in 1996 and a short postdoctoral period, I became an editor for The EMBO Journal in 1997. In 2007 I shifted my focus to developing in-house solutions for workflow integration and data management and became the Head of Information Support and Resources (ISR) at EMBO.