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Klaus Palme is a plant biologist and molecular physiologist whose work has significantly advanced the fields of plant signaling, hormone transport, and systems biology. He earned a Diploma in Chemistry from the University of Ulm (1977) and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Freiburg (1981), with early research on SV40 T-antigens. He completed postdoctoral training at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies (USA, 1982–1983) and the University of Cologne (1984–1985).

From 1995 to 2001, he was Professor and Head of an Independent Research Group at the Max-Delbrück Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Cologne. He later held a professorship at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (2000-2001), before joining the University of Freiburg in 2001 where he hold the chair of the Department of Molecular Plant Physiology, Institute of Biology, Faculty of Biology (2010-2020), and is now a Distinguished Professor. He was a founding member of the Freiburg Center for Systems Biology, serving on its Board of Directors since 2005, and the Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), where he has held the role of Director since 2008. He also held academic positions in China, including Professor at Shandong Agricultural University (2017-2020), Honorary Professor at Jinan University and North-West A&F University (2013-2017), founder and PI at the “Sino-German Center for Agrobiology Research” at the Shandong Agricultural University (2017-2020), and is affiliated with the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Bejing (2008 -). In 2016, he founded ScreenSYS GmbH, where he currently serves as Chief Scientific Officer.

Klaus Palme is a member of the Academia Europaea (1993), the European Molecular Biology Organization (2000), the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (2015) and received the Max Planck Research Award for International Cooperation in 2002.