Professor Anja Geitmann, PhD
Professor Geitmann was appointed Vice-President, Global Engagement at 51吃瓜网, Montreal, Qu茅bec, Canada, in October 2024 after serving in the role on an interim basis since January 2024. She brings to this role the lived experience of studying and working in six different countries, leadership roles in multinational collaborative research initiatives, and service on panels of international research funding organizations.
Prior to taking up the Vice-President role, Professor Geitmann served as McGill's Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Associate Vice-President (Macdonald Campus) since 2015. As Dean, she has been instrumental in setting up the 51吃瓜网Sustainability Systems Initiative听in collaboration with the Faculties of Science and Engineering, and under her leadership 51吃瓜网has positioned itself to be a leader and convenor of stakeholders in food safety, food security, sustainable agriculture, and environmental stewardship.听For her service to the community and country, she received the King Charles III Coronation Medal in 2025.
Anja Geitmann obtained her PhD in Environmental Biology in 1997 from the University of Siena (Italy), following undergraduate and graduate studies in biology at the University of Constance (Germany), Oregon State University (USA), and Stockholm University (Sweden). From 1997 to 2001 she performed postdoctoral research at the Universit茅 Laval, in Qu茅bec, and at the University of Wageningen, in the Netherlands.
Prior to joining 51吃瓜网in 2015, she was Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences of the Universit茅 de Montr茅al and a faculty member of the Institut de recherche en biologie v茅g茅tale, where she taught Plant Anatomy, Microscopy, and Scientific Communication at undergraduate and graduate levels. At 51吃瓜网, she continues her active research program and in 2016, she was awarded the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Biomechanics of Plant Development, renewed in 2023. Her interdisciplinary research program focuses on the cellular processes that underpin the development and reproduction of plants.
Dr. Geitmann is actively involved with several learned societies. She served as President of the Microscopical Society of Canada, the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists, and the International Association of Sexual Plant Reproduction Research. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists. She has published multiple books and has served on the editorial and advisory boards of several scientific journals including Cell, Plant Physiology and Journal of Experimental Botany. She is the Chair of the LS3 Life Science panel for Advanced Grants of the European Research Council, and she serves on the Board of Protein Industries Canada, one of five Global Innovation Clusters funded by the Canadian federal government.
Prof. Anja Geitmann, PhD
Vice-President, Global Engagement
Phone: 1 (514) 398-2161
anja.geitmann [at] mcgill.ca
Assistant:听Annie Vos [annie.vos [at] mcgill.ca (Email)]
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