Aileen Berasategui
Research appointments
Assistant Professor, Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 2023 - Present
CMFI Early Career Researcher, Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Tübingen, and Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany | 2022 - 2023
German Research Foundation (DFG) Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, USA | 2017-2021
Education
Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany | 2017
M.S. University of Bremen, Ecology. Bremen, Germany | 2012
B.S. University of Oviedo, Biology. Oviedo, Spain | 2010
Fellowships and Grants
European Research Council Starting Grant (ERC StG) | 2025-2029
Lucie Burgers Foundation, Research Grant | 2024
Uyttenboogaart-Eliasen Stichting, Research Grant | 2024
Early Career Research Grant, Cluster of Excellence “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections” (CMFI), University of Tübingen, Germany | 2022-2024
German Research Foundation (DFG) Postdoctoral Fellowship | 2019-2021
Graduate Research Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology | 2012-2017
Teaching Experience
Evolutionary Genetics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 2025
Behavioral Biology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 2024
Guest lecturer, University of Tübingen | 2022
Guest lecturer, University of Tübingen | 2021
Invited Seminars
Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology Program (ERATO), Evolving Symbiosis Project | 2024
Gordon Research Conference on Cellular and Molecular Fungal Biology | 2024
International Congress of Entomology | 2024
University of Vienna, University Seminar | 2024
The Sainsbury Laboratory, Nowich, UK | 2023
Gordon Research Conference on Plant-Herbivore Interactions, Ventura, USA | 2023
IMPRS Symposium, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany | 2023
SERVICE
Session organizer at the Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting (NAEM): “The mutualism-parasitism continuum in ecology”, Lunteren, The Netherlands | 2025
Mentor and advisor for undergraduates, University of Tübingen, Germany | 2021-2023
Mentor and advisor for undergraduates, Emory University. Atlanta, USA | 2017-2021
Online Q&A: What do we do in an entomology lab? (International Day of Women and Girls in Science) K3-5 students, Colegio El Salvador, Spain | 2021
Session organizer at the International Society of Chemical Ecology annual meeting: “The chemical ecology of symbiotic interactions”, Atlanta | 2019
Science Art Wonder. Atlanta, USA | 2019
Skype a Scientist | 2018-present
Outreach, Mycrobes. Atlanta, USA | 2017
AD-HOC REVIeWER
Natural Products Reports, Nucleic Acids Research, The ISME Journal, Molecular Ecology, BMC Plant Biology, Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Entomology, Microbial Ecology, Functional Ecology, PeerJ. Scientific Reports, PlosOne, IJSM, Biological Control, Animal Microbiome, Communications Biology, Nature Microbiology.