Prof. Dr. Michael Hiller
Professor of Comparative Genomics
LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics,
Senckenberg Research Institute,
Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Twitter: @hillermich

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

Third party funding sources