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Our Scientists
Prof. Dr. Katarzyna Bozek
group leader
Dr. France Rose
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Noémie Moreau
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Martim Gomes
Postdoctoral Researcher
Stefano Ugliano
Doctoral researcher
Lucas Sancéré
Doctoral researcher
Piotr Wójcik
Doctoral researcher
Arash Fatehi
Doctoral researcher
Florian Bürger
Doctoral researcher
Mahsa Vali
Doctoral researcher
David Bertram
Doctoral researcher
Paul Hahn
Doctoral researcher
Mathilde Vergnaud
Doctoral researcher
Robin Pierschke
Doctoral researcher
Kathryn Schellen
Administrative Assistant
Alumni
Dr. Juan Pisula
Dr. Maurice Deserno
Dr. Hussein Naji
German Sergei
Prof. Dr. Katarzyna Bozek:
Curriculum Vitae
- since 2023 W3 tenured professor, Medical and Natural Science Faculties, University of Cologne
- 2022-2023 W2 tenure track professor, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne
- 2020-2022 – junior group leader, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Germany
- 2015-2019 – group leader within Greg Stephens lab, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan
- 2011-2015 – postdoctoral fellow, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
- 2007-2011 – PhD thesis, Max Planck Institute for Computer Sciences, Saarbrücken, Germany
- 2006-2007 – student, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Grants and fellowships
- 2020-2025 North Rhine Westphalia Return Program grant (NRW Rückkehrprogramm)
- 2020-2025 Junior Research Network of German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- 2013-2015 Max Planck Society postdoctoral fellowship
- 2011-2014 research grant of the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Young International Scientists
- 2011-2015 Chinese Academy of Sciences International Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers
Some media coverage
- Scientific American: Fats in the Brain May Help Explain How Human Intelligence Evolved 11 Jun 2015
- The Economist: Muscled out. Human beings are brainy weaklings 31 May 2014
- New York Times: Stronger Brains, Weaker Bodies 27 May 2014
- National Geographics: Humans Evolved Weak Muscles to Feed Brain’s Growth 28 May 2014
- Süddeutsche Zeitung: Die Kraft der Affen 28 May 2014
- Quanta Magazine: How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains 10 Nov 2015
- Video abstract about brain lipidome evolution published in Neuron, 18 Feb 2015
