Manuela Baccarini is Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs, Deputy of the Rector Manuela Baccarini, Professor of Cell Signalling at the Max Perutz Labs of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna, serves as Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs since 1 October 2022 onwards. Manuela Baccarini was born in Italy and completed her doctoral studies at the Sapienza University of Rome.
Following positions at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg, at the Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine in Hanover, and at the Albert Einstein College of the Yeshiva University in New York, Baccarini joined the Department of Microbiology, Immunobiology and Genetics at the Centre for Molecular Biology of the University of Vienna. From 2007 to 2017 Baccarini held the position of Vice-Dean and assistant director of the Max Perutz Labs. Up until September 2022 Baccarini led the doctoral programme „Vienna BioCenter PhD program“ of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna and was director of the study program „Molecular Biology“ (University of Vienna) and „Molecular Bioscience“ (joint PhD study program University of Vienna/ Medical University of Vienna). Manuela Baccarini is a member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) and corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.