Susanne von Caemmerer was elected to the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher, Leopoldina, in 2006, under the Section Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.

Citation: Susanne von Caemmerer is distinguished for many important contributions to the study of photosynthesis. Her research focuses on diffusion and fixation of CO₂ by leaves and she developed simple mathematical models for quantitative descriptions of CO₂ fixation. These are now used world wide for the calculation of global CO₂ fixation. In recent years she had used antisense RNA technology to generate transgenic plants with reduced amounts of different photosynthetic enzymes to study the regulation of C₃ and C₄ photosynthesis.

• Susanne's Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher profile.