Lennart Hilbert, PhD Physiology, BSc Physics (* Sept. 7, 1985)
Professor Systems Biology/Bioinformatics
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Head of Department, Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems (IBCS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Teaching affiliation, Zoological Institute (ZOO), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Academic career
2024 – present, Professor for Systems Biology/Bioinformatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
2018 – 2024, Tenure-Track Professor for Systems Biology/Bioinformatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
2014 – 2018, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Systems Biology Dresden, and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, and Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
Postdoctoral supervisors: Nadine L. Vastenhouw and Vasily Zaburdaev
2010 – 2014, PhD Physiology, Dept. Physiology, McGill University, Centre for Applied Mathematics in Biology and Medicine, and Meakins-Christie Laboratories at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Thesis title “Reverse Engineering Smooth Muscle Molecular Mechanics”; Doctoral supervisors: Michael C. Mackey and Anne-Marie Lauzon
2008 – 2010, Visiting Research Student, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada; Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
2005 – 2008, BSc Physics, Bremen University
Thesis title “Renormalization Theory for Hamiltonian Systems”; Thesis supervisor: Peter Richter, Bremen, Germany
Project funding
2024 – ongoing, founding member and deputy KIT spokesperson of the Center Synthetic Genomics, funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation
2022 – ongoing, DFG Sachbeihilfe, “Transient association of genes with RNA polymerase II clusters as a mechanism of gene regulation in early embryonic development”; https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/504473957
2022 – ongoing, DFG-NSFC Joint Sino-German program, “The role of RNA-binding proteins in spatially compartmentalised control of transcription”, in conjunction with Xiaohua Shen, Tsinghua University; https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/469120288
2019 – 2022, DFG Sachbeihilfe, “Active microemulsification as a principle of chromatin organization and as an aspect of cell lineage specification”, priority program “Molecular mechanisms of functional phase separation”, in conjunction with DFG grant to Vasily Zaburdaev, FAU Erlangen; https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/419138152
Fellowships and distinctions
2014 – 2017, ELBE postdoctoral fellowship (full salary)
2012 – 2014, Systems Biology Graduate Training Fellowship, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
2010 – 2012, Graduate Fellowship, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, awarded twice for one year
2010 – 2011, Graduate Fellowship, McGill Faculty of Medicine
2006 – 2010, Fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Publication record on ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4478-5607