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.

Can Aztekin

Structural Regeneration
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students  

Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt

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

Michael Borg

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

Yu-Chu Chang

Membrane protein folding, stability, and functions
Adjunct faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students  

Patience Chatukuta

African Plant Genomics
Adjunct faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students  

Susana Coelho

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

Karl Forchhammer

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

Marcus Hartmann

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

Ping Hsueh

Complex Biological Interactions
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students  

Daniel Huson

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

Cátia Igreja

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

Uwe Irion

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

Ralf-Peter Jansen

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

Oliver Kohlbacher

Method development in computational biology
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students  

Thorsten Langner

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

Ruth Ley

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

Agnieszka Lipinska

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

Andrei Lupas

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

Boris Macek

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

Lisa Maier

Drug-Microbiome-Interactions
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students  

James Marsh

Microbiome engineering
Adjunct faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students  

Honour McCann

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

Kay Nieselt

Integrative Transcriptomics
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students  

Robert Ohlendorf

Molecular Signaling
Adjunct faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students  

Luisa Pallares

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

Tassula Proikas-Cezanne

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

Beatrice Ramm

Synthetic biology approaches to pattern formation
Faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students  

Gal Ofir

Plant Immunogenomics
Adjunct faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students  

Doron Rapaport

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

Christian Rödelsperger

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

Hassan Salem

Animal-Microbe Symbioses
Faculty in: TIPP, IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students  

Erik Schäffer

Nanomechanics of Cellular Machines
Faculty in: IMPRS
Recruiting PhD students  

Rebecca Schwab

Ecological Genetics
Adjunct faculty in: IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students  

Ralf Sommer

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

Adrian Streit

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

Alexander Tyakht

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

Marja Timmermans

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

Oliver Weichenrieder

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

John Weir

Structural Biochemistry of Meiosis
Faculty in: TIPP, IMPRS
Currently not recruiting PhD students  

Nadine Ziemert

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