Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae of
Dr. Florent Waltz
Positions
06/2024 – current
Ambizione Project leader (University of Basel, Biozentrum)
04/2022 – 06/2024
Postdoc in the lab of Ben Engel in Basel (University of Basel, Biozentrum)
05/2021 – 03/2022
Postdoc in the lab of Ben Engel in Munich (Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie and Helmholtz Zentrum)
11/2020 – 04/2021
Short-term transition postdoc in Strasbourg because of COVID
02/2019 – 10/2020
Postdoc in the lab of Yaser Hashem in Bordeaux (Institut Européen de Chimie et Biochimie, INSERM)
10/2015 – 12/2018
PhD in the lab of Philippe Giegé in Strasbourg (Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS)
Grants
09/2022
2-year SNSF post-doctoral Fellowship (link)
09/2019
Instruct-ERIC grant for cryo-EM data collection, all fees covered, travel and data collection (Project ID: 8948 – Leishmania Mito complex)
10/2015
3-year Doctoral Grant awarded by the Ecole Doctoral des Sciences de la Vie et de la Santé (ED 414) of the University of Strasbourg
Academic prizes and honours
07/2023
Best poster prize, 7th Molecular Life of Diatoms
12/2020
“Article of the year” from the SFBBM (link)
10/2020
Dina Surdin prize from the SFBBM (link)
06/2020
June 2020 “Article of the month” from the SFBBM (link)
06/2019
Ph.D. Prize from the University of Strasbourg, June 21st (link)
03/2019
Grand Jury Prize from The Société de Biologie de Strasbourg, March 22nd (link)
09/2018
Best oral presentation during the 27th tRNA Conference (September 2018)
Reviewing activities
Reviewer for peer-reviewed journals: Science, Nature Communications, The Plant Cell, Plant Physiology.
Reviewer for grants: Branco Weiss Fellowship, SPS LabEx.
Contributions to conferences
Upcoming
05/2026
14th International Conference for Plant Mitochondrial Biology; May 2026, Kagoshima, Japan
02/2026
LS2 Annual Meeting; February 11–13, Zurich, Switzerland (Session chair)
10/2025
16th Targeting Mitochondria; October 22–24, Berlin, Germany (Invited speaker)
09/2025
Young Swiss Tomo Meeting; October 17, Bern, Switzerland (Organiser)
09/2025
Perspectives in Bioenergetics; September 29 – October 1, Marburg, Germany (Keynote speaker)
Past
09/2025
89th Meeting of the Botanical Society of Japan; September 18–20, Fukuoka, Japan (Invited speaker)
09/2025
Sangyo University internal seminar; September 16, Kyoto, Japan (Invited speaker, host Ken-Ichi Wakabayashi)
08/2025
21st International Conference on Chlamydomonas; August 24–29, Münster, Germany (Speaker)
06/2025
German Society for Cell Biology seminars; June 24, Online (Invited speaker)
05/2025
Mitochondria in Immunity and Neurodegeneration; May 12–16, Copenhagen, Denmark (Invited speaker)
04/2025
MitoTALK Seminar Series; April 3, Online (Invited speaker)
02/2025
EMBL In Situ Structural Biology; February 4–7, Heidelberg, Germany (Poster and Speaker)
01/2025
Thermo Fisher Scientific internal seminar; January 2025, Eindhoven, Netherlands (Invited speaker, host Sagar Khavnekar)
12/2024
University of Halle internal seminar; December 2–4, Halle, Germany (Invited speaker, host Etienne Meyer)
11/2024
IB2C internal seminar; November 28–29, Paris-Saclay, France (Invited speaker, host Cécile Sauvanet)
09/2024
EMBO Mitochondria in Life, Death and Disease; October 9–10, Landshut, Germany (Speaker)
07/2024
GRC & GRS Mitochondria and Chloroplast; July 6–12, Barcelona, Spain (Poster and Speaker)
06/2024
Molecular Plant Science PhD Retreat; June 20–21, Morat, Switzerland (Invited speaker)
06/2024
EMBL Summer School on Cryo-FIB Milling; June 17–20, Heidelberg, Germany (Keynote speaker)
05/2024
13th International Conference for Plant Mitochondrial Biology; May 26–30, St-Malo, France (Speaker)
05/2024
IBPC internal seminar; May 15–17, Paris, France (Invited speaker, host Bruno Miroux)
02/2024
University of Kyoto internal seminar; February 19, Kyoto, Japan (Invited speaker, host Mizuki Takenaka)
02/2024
University of Tokyo internal seminar; February 16, Tokyo, Japan (Invited speaker, host Shin-Ichi Arimura)
11/2023
Integrative Structural Biology Meeting; November 13–17, Marseille, France (Invited speaker)
08/2023
GRC Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology; July 30 – August 4, Ventura, CA, USA (Invited speaker)
07/2023
7th Molecular Life of Diatoms; July 17–21, San Diego, CA, USA (Poster – Award: Best Poster)
01/2023
SwissPLANT Symposium; January 22–23, Les Diablerets, Switzerland (Speaker)
07/2022
GRC Mitochondria and Chloroplast; July 17–22, Mount Snow, West Dover, VT, USA (Poster)
05/2022
12th International Conference for Plant Mitochondrial Biology; May 22–27, Malmö, Sweden (Speaker)
08/2021
19th International Conference on Chlamydomonas; August 29 – September 3, Île des Embiez, France (Speaker)
07/2021
Annual SFBBM Meeting (French FEBS); July 1–2, Paris, France (Invited speaker)
08/2020
WebCaM Webinar Series on Chloroplast and Mitochondria; August 12, Online (Invited speaker)
04/2019
Bordeaux Molecular Science; April 10, Bordeaux, France (Speaker)
03/2019
International Conference for Plant Mitochondrial Biology; March 10–15, Ein Gedi, Israel (Speaker)
PhD
10/2018
Académie des Sciences Meeting; October 25, Strasbourg, France (Invited speaker)
09/2018
27th tRNA Conference; September 23–27, Strasbourg, France (Award: Best oral presentation)
03/2018
Doctoral School Days 2018; March 8, Strasbourg, France (Speaker)
10/2017
EMBO Mitochondria in Life, Death and Disease; October 9–13, Brindisi, Italy (Poster)
05/2017
10th International Conference for Plant Mitochondrial Biology; May 22–26, Hangzhou, China (Poster)
04/2017
tRNA in Mainz; April 26–27, Mainz, Germany (Speaker)
10/2016
Mitocross Summer School; October 5, Strasbourg, France (Speaker)