Aileen Berasategui

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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.