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Dr. Torben Ott

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Current position

2008 - present Full Professor of Theoretical Biophysics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)

Positions held 

2022 Visiting Professor at the Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University (JP)
2007 - 2008 Guest Professor of Theoretical Biophysics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
2006 - 2008 Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin (DE)
2001 - 2006 Junior Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin and Berlin Center for Genome Based Bioinformatics (DE)
1997 - 2001 Research scientist at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
1996 - 1997 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Charité Berlin (DE)
1994 - 1996 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)

Academic Education

1990 - 1994 Doctoral Degree in Theoretical Biophysics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
1985 - 1990 Diploma in Biophysics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)

Honors/Awards/Fellowships

2015 - 2016 Caroline-von-Humboldt professorship at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
2009 Doctor honoris causa from the University of Gothenburg (SE)

DFG-funded projects

2020 - present DataPLANT - 'Data in PLANT research'
2019 - present EXC 2046 - 'MATH+: Berlin Mathematics Research Center'
2016 - present TRR 175 - 'The Green Hub: Central Coordinator of Acclimation in Plants'
2017 - 2022 GRK 2290 - 'Crossing Boundaries: Molecular Interactions in Malaria'
2011 - 2020 GRK 1772 - 'Computational Systems Biology'
2011 - 2018 SFB 740 - 'From Molecules to Modules: Organisation and Dynamics of Functional Units in Cells'
2009 - 2013 SFB 618 - 'Theoretical Biology: Robustness, Modularity and Evolutionary Design of Living Systems'
2006 - 2010 GRK 1360 - 'Genomics and Systems Biology of Molecular Networks'

Selected activities