Lennart Hilbert, PhD Physiology, BSc Physics (* Sept. 7, 1985)
Tenure-Track Professor Systems Biology/Bioinformatics
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Research Group Leader, Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems – Biological Information Processing (IBCS-BIP)
Head of the Department of Systems Biology/Bioinformatics, Zoological Institute (ZOO-SBI)
Academic career
2018 – present, 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
2004 – 2008, BSc Physics, Bremen University
Thesis title “Renormalization Theory for Hamiltonian Systems”; Thesis supervisor: Peter Richter, Bremen, Germany
Project funding
2024 – ongoing, founding member of the Carl Zeiss Foundation Center for Synthetic Genomics
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