Division Comparative Genomics: Team

Head of division

Thomas Hiller
Prof. Dr. Michael Hiller
Head of Comparative Genomics (SF)

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

Team

Leon Hilgers
Postdoc
Yury Malovichko
PhD student
Xueling Yi
Postdoc
Alejandro Gonzales
PhD student
Bernhard Bein
PhD student
Alexander Schleiter
Master student
Shahriar Nur
Technician
Anastasiya Stepanenko
Master student
Alexandra Schmitt
Assistant