Mark Stitt is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology and Research Group Leader of the group System Regulation. After finishing his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1978, he moved to Germany where he received his Habilitation at the University of Göttingen in 1984. Following positions as Fiebinger Professor at Bayreuth University and Full Professor at Heidelberg University, Stitt joined the Max Planck Society in 2000. His research aims to understand the synthesis and regulation of metabolites that are important for storage, transport, and signaling in plants. Stitt was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Umeå, Sweden, in 2008 and was elected to the Leopoldina National Academy of Science in 2009.
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