Faculty

The faculty for our two PhD programs are internationally recognized researchers working at the cutting edge of their fields. Our research groups use a broad range of approaches, techniques and diverse model systems. 

Faculty for the IMPRS ‘From Molecules to Organisms’ are located at the Max-Planck Institute for Biology and the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory as well as at a number of Institutes at the Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen.

The faculty list below shows all current faculty , including information on where they are based and if they are currently recruiting PhD students. You can find out more about their research and available PhD projects by selecting the faculty member of interest.

Uwe Irion

Evolution of Pigment pattern formation in Danio Fish
Adjunct faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students. [more]

Oliver Kohlbacher

Method development in computational biology
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students. [more]

Thorsten Langner

Adaptive evolution of filamentous plant pathogens
Adjunct faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students. [more]

Doron Rapaport

Biogenesis and quality control of the mitochondrial outer membrane
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students. [more]

Hassan Salem

Animal-Microbe Symbioses
Faculty in: TIPP, IMPRS
Recruiting PhD students [more]

John Weir

Structural Biochemistry of Meiosis
Faculty in: TIPP, IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students. [more]

Michael Borg

Development and Chromatin Biology in Red Algae
Adjunct faculty in:  IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt

Novel antibiotics and their mechanism of action
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Frank Chan

Systems Genetics of Evolution
Faculty in: TIPP, IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Susana Coelho

Algal Development and Evolution
Faculty in: TIPP, IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Hajk-Georg Drost

Computational Biology and Causal Inference
Adjunct faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Karl Forchhammer

Nutrient-Starvation-Induced Acclimation Processes and Cell Differentiation in Cyanobacteria
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Marcus Hartmann

Molecular recognition and catalysis
Adjunct faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Daniel Huson

Algorithms for Computational Biology
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Cátia Igreja

Regulation and post-translational modification of gene expression in nematodes
Adjunct faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Ralf-Peter Jansen

mRNA Localization and Localized Translation
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Felicity Jones

Genomics of Adaptation and Speciation
Faculty in: TIPP, IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Ruth Ley

Microbiome Science
Faculty in: TIPP; IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Agnieszka Lipinska

Reproductive isolation and speciation in the brown algae
Adjunct faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Andrei Lupas

Protein Evolution
Faculty in: TIPP, IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Boris Macek

Quantitative Proteomics/Mass Spectrometry/Proteogenomics
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

James Marsh

Microbiome engineering
Max Planck Insitute for Biology
Adjunct faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Honour McCann

Plant pathogen coevolution
Faculty in: TIPP, IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Luisa Pallares

Evolutionary Genomics of Complex Traits
Faculty in: TIPP, IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Kay Nieselt

Integrative Transcriptomics
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Tassula Proikas-Cezanne

Human WIPI β-propellers in autophagy, health and disease
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Christian Rödelsperger

Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics
Adjunct faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Erik Schäffer

Nanomechanics of Cellular Machines
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Ralf Sommer

Integrative Evolutionary Biology
Faculty in: TIPP, IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Adrian Streit

Genetics in parasitic nematodes
Adjunct faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Estienne Swart

Natural genome editing of ciliates
Faculty in: TIPP, IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Marja Timmermans

miRNAs as Mobile Signals in Development
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Alexander Tyakht

Microbiome Bioinformatics
Adjunct faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students
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Oliver Weichenrieder

Structural Biology of Selfish RNA
Adjunct faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Detlef Weigel

Natural Variation
Faculty in: TIPP, IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]

Nadine Ziemert

Genomics and Evolution of microbial secondary metabolites
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students [more]