Biography
I studied Molecular Genetics at the University of Vienna and did my PhD in erythropoiesis in the lab of Hartmut Beug at the IMP in Vienna. I then joined the newly founded Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Cell Biology and Genetics as a Bioinformatics Service, and then Group Leader (2000-2010). I then moved to the MPI for Biology of Ageing in Cologne (2010-2013), and to the MPI of Biochemistry in Martinsried (2013-2016) as Computational Biology Group Leader. In 2015, I competed and was awarded a CNRS DR2 position and in 2016, I joined the IBDM as Group Leader of the Computational Biology Group.
Projects
As Group Leader of the Computational Biology Group, I am involved in many research projects. Personally, I am fascinated by mitochondria and metabolism and how they adapt to their cellular environment. We try to address this by several computational, and mathematical approaches – and in close collaboration with our experimental partners, who are contributing to our work by feeding us with data.
I am moreover an evolutionary biologist at heart and am interested in how organs, cellular and molecular systems have evolved. The methods of how to address these questions are manifold and we address these questions from several angles and with several systems.
Useful links
- Our group web-pages
- Our most important web-based tool to analyse -omics data from the point of view of mitochondria, mitoXplorer