Short CV – Cristina Barragán

Since 2026
 Emmy Noether Junior Group Leader, Kiel University
 Establishing and leading an independent DFG-funded group investigating the functions, horizontal transmission, and cellular integration of mobile chromosomes in eukaryotic microbes.

2024–2025
 Strategy Officer, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
 Contributed to institutional strategy and scientific planning at an international research organisation.

2021–2024
 Postdoctoral Researcher, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK
 Discovered recurrent horizontal chromosome transfer in the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae and investigated its contribution to the evolution of clonal pathogens.

Education

2016–2020
 PhD, Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen — summa cum laude
 Investigated genetic incompatibilities and adaptation in natural plant populations.

2013–2016
 MSc Biology, University of Tübingen

2010–2013
 BSc Biology, University of Tübingen

Funding & awards