About Emmanuelle Charpentier
Emmanuelle Charpentier worked and researched at the University of Vienna from 2002 to 2009. She was a research group leader, visiting professor and assistant professor at the Institute of Microbiology & Genetics at the University of Vienna. In 2006, she habilitated at the Center for Molecular Biology at the University of Vienna and subsequently worked as a laboratory head and associate professor at the Max Perutz Labs of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna until 2009. During this time, she laid the foundation for the groundbreaking development of CRISPR-Cas9 technology, for which she and her colleague Jennifer Doudna were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020.
