Rudolf Grosschedl was born in 1952 in Salzburg, Austria. He studied at the University of Freiburg and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1982. He then became a Postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA, from 1982 to 1985. In 1986, he moved to the University of California, San Francisco, USA, where he initially served as Assistant Professor, became Associate Professor in 1992, and held the position of Full Professor from 1995 to 1999. Concurrently, starting in 1992, he was first an Associate Investigator and then an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in San Francisco, USA. In 1999, Grosschedl returned to Germany and became a professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and director of the “Gene Center Munich”. From 2004 to 2021, he was a scientific member and director at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology & Epigenetics in Freiburg. Rudolf Grosschedl has been an Emeritus since 2021.