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Brigitte Poppenberger investigates plant growth development regulated by plant steroid hormones, specifically brassinosteroids, which regulate endogenous developmental programs and confer plants' adaptive potential to environmental changes. Her research aims to elucidate the molecular and biochemical processes underlying brassinosteroid action, making the gained knowledge applicable to the breeding and production of horticultural crops. She studied Agriculture with a specialization in Horticulture at the University of Renewable Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna. Following her Ph.D. studies in plant molecular biology, she completed a three-year postdoctoral research stay at the Center for Novel Agricultural Products at the University of York in the United Kingdom. In 2006, she founded an independent research group at the Centre for Molecular Biology at the University of Vienna and accepted a professorship at the Technical University of Munich in 2011.