Lotte Søgaard-Andersen (born March 14, 1959) is a Danish microbiologist and molecular geneticist who researches

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and regulation of the

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. She works at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology as director and is an elected member of the

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and

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Early life and education

Lotte Søgaard-Andersen was born on March 14, 1959, in

Holbæk Holbæk () is a town in Denmark and the County seat, seat of Holbæk municipality with a population of 30,903 (1 January 2025).Odense University Odense University was a university in Odense, Denmark. It was established in 1966. In 1998, the university was merged with two other institutions to form the University of Southern Denmark. Its campus is now known as University of Southern Denmar ...

, followed by a

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(1988) and PhD in molecular biology (1991) from the same university.

Career

Søgaard-Andersen completed a postdoctoral research appointment at Odense University. She was hired as an assistant professor at Odense in 1992. In 1995, she was a visiting scientist at

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. She worked as an associate professor at

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from 1996 to 2001, at which point she was promoted to full professor. In 2004, she left the University of Southern Denmark to work as director and scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology. In 2008 she began working at

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as a professor of microbiology. She has been on the editorial boards of several journals, including the ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Current Opinion in Microbiology'', '' PLOS Genetics'', and ''

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Awards and honors

In 2008 she was elected as a member of the

in its microbiology and immunology section. In 2014 she became a member of the

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Søgaard-Andersen, Lotte Living people 1959 births People from Holbæk Municipality Danish microbiologists Academic staff of Odense University Academic staff of the University of Southern Denmark Academic staff of Max Planck Society Academic staff of the University of Marburg Danish women scientists Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Max Planck Institute directors