Jutta Ludwig-Müller is a full professor and the director of the Institute of Botany at the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD). Her main research interests include interactions between plants and pathogens/endophytes, phytohormones, their metabolism and role during plants' development and in pathogenic/symbiotic interactions, and secondary plant metabolites. She obtained her PhD from the J.W. Goethe Universität Frankfurt/Main (JWGU), where she studied auxin biosynthesis and the role of auxins during the clubroot disease. Dr. Ludwig-Müller was appointed Assistant Professor at the JWGU in 1994. Five years later, she received a professorship in Plant Physiology at the TUD and she has been heading up the Institute of Botany there since 2001. She has published more than 170 scientific papers and her research has been cited more than 4,600 times.
