Head of division

Professor of Comparative Genomics
LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics,
Senckenberg Research Institute, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt &
Goethe-University, Faculty of Biosciences, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
SCIENTIFIC CAREER
since 09/2020
Professor of Comparative Genomics, LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics, Senckenberg Society for Nature Research & Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2018 – 2020
Senior Research Group Leader, jointly at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
2011-2017
Research Group Leader, jointly at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
2008-2011
Postdoctoral work at Stanford University, Department of Developmental Biology, USA
2007-2008
Postdoctoral work at University of Freiburg, Bioinformatics Group, Germany
2002-2006
PhD in Bioinformatics, University of Jena and University of Freiburg, Germany
AWARDS
2023
ERC Synergy Grant
2019
Young Investigator, Technical University Dresden
2013
German Life Science Award
2009-2011
Long-term Postdoc Fellowship from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)
2008-2009
Postdoc fellowship from the German Research Foundation
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