Bio | Henrik Kaessmann

Education & Positions

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since 2015
Full Professor (W3) at the ZMBH, University of Heidelberg & Member of the DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance
2014 - 2015
Full Professor at the Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2010 - 2015
Group Leader in the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
2007 - 2014
Associate Professor (with tenure) at the Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2003 - 2007
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2001 - 2003
Postdoctoral position at the University of Chicago, Department of Ecology and Evolution (mentor: Dr. Wen–Hsiung Li)
2001
Postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (lab of Dr. Svante Pääbo)
1997 - 2001
Ph.D. degree (Summa cum laude) awarded by the University of Leipzig (02/2001). Ph.D. thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (mentor: Dr. Svante Pääbo)
1992 - 1997
Master of Science degree awarded 11/1997. Biology studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany (until 1995) and at Uppsala University, Sweden

Honors & Awards

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2022
NOMIS Foundation Award
2021
European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant
2021
Award for Outstanding Research Achievements (Heidelberg University)
2014
Cloëtta Prize (Max Cloëtta Foundation)
2014
Jürg Tschopp Life Science Prize (University of Lausanne)
2014
Election to EMBO Membership (European Molecular Biology Organization)
2014
European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant
2010
Friedrich Miescher Award (Swiss Society for Biochemistry)
2009
European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
2008
Basic Life Science Award, Faculty of Biology & Medicine, University of Lausanne
2005
EMBO Young Investigator Award (European Molecular Biology Organization)
2004
Nomination for the Heinz Maier Leibnitz young investigator award by the Max Planck Society
2003
Emmy Noether group leader funding from the German Research Council – declined (instead Assistant Professorship in Lausanne)
2002
Emmy Noether postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Council
2001
EMBO long–term fellowship (European Molecular Biology Organization)
1999
Sino–German Young Scholar (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)