Group Leader

Irmtraud M. Meyer

Group Leader
BIMSB room 2.06
+49-30-9406-3292


Curriculum Vitae


since 2016 Senior Group Leader at the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Max Delbrück Centre (MDC), Berlin, Germany, and
Full Professor at the Department of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, Institute of Biochemistry and
Adjunct Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Freie Universität of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2006-2015 Faculty Member at the Centre for High-Throughput Biology,
Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and
Adjunct Faculty Member at the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2004-2005 Postdoctoral researcher at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Cambridge, UK
2002-2004 Postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Centre for Gene Function and the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, UK
1999-2002 PhD student of Richard Durbin in Computational Biology at the Department of Genetics of the University of Cambridge, UK, and
the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
1993-1998 Studies in physics and mathematics at the RWTH Aachen, Germany,
the University of Paris XI, France, and
the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland

Awards


2016-2020 Helmholtz Distinguished Professorship W3 of the Helmholtz Association, Germany
2009 Marie Curie Senior Fellow, Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2007 Marie Curie Junior Fellow, Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2000-2002 Wellcome Trust Prize Student, Wellcome Trust, London, UK
1999-2002 External Research Scholar, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK