Uta Paszkowski leads the Cereal Symbiosis Group at the Department of Plant Sciences of the University of Cambridge (UK). She did her undergraduate studies at the University Cologne (Germany) gaining a Master (Diplom) degree in phytopathology with Jeff Dangl at the Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding. UP received her PhD in Biotechnology in the group of Ingo Potrykus at the ETH-Zurich (Switzerland) and conducted two postdocs on molecular genetics of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis with Thomas Boller and Steve Briggs at the University Basel (Switzerland) and the Syngenta’s Torrey Mesa Research Institute in San Diego (USA), respectively. She started her own research group at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), followed by an Assistant Professorship position at the University Lausanne (Switzerland) before moving to Cambridge University (UK) in October 2012 where she now is a full Professor for Plant Molecular Genetics. In 2020 she was elected EMBO member.