Research group leaders do not get permanent positions. We believe that balancing a constant turnover of new people bringing fresh ideas on the one hand and a good career mentoring, fair support, and appropriate employment conditions on the other hand is essential in order to be a successful research institution today.

Directors Emeriti

Wieland Huttner

Wieland Huttner

Director 1998 – 2018

Research Group Leader since 1998
Current research group at MPI-CBG

Elisabeth Knust

Elisabeth Knust

Director 2006 – 2019
Research Group Leader 2006 – 2023

Former Directors of MPI-CBG

knust(at)mpi-cbg.de

Gene Myers

Gene Myers

Director 2012 – 2022

Research Group Leader since 2012
Current research group at MPI-CBG

Kai Simons

Kai Simons

Director 1998 – 2006
Research Group Leader 1998 – 2012

CEO of Lipotype GmbH, a spin-off company from MPI-CBG
www.lipotype.com

simons(at)mpi-cbg.de

 


 Alumni Group Leaders

Simon Alberti

Simon Alberti

Research Group Leader 2010 – 2018

Biotechnology Center of the TU Dresden, Professor of Cellular Biochemistry
https://tu-dresden.de/cmcb/biotec/forschungsgruppen/alberti/uebersichtsseite

Ivan C. Baines

Ivan C. Baines

Former COO at MPI-CBG

https://mpfi.org/institute/institute-leadership/

Matthias Bochtler

Matthias Bochtler

Head, Joint MPG-PAN Junior Research Group 2001 – 2010

International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Professor of Biological Sciences
www.iimcb.gov.pl

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Michael Brand

Michael Brand

Research Group Leader 1999 – 2006

CRTD - Center for Regenerative Therapies at TU Dresden
www.tu-dresden.de/cmcb/crtd/forschungsgruppen/crtd-forschungsgruppen/brand

 

Jan Brugués

Jan Brugués

Research Group Leader 2013 – 2022

Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) at TU Dresden, Chair of Spatiotemporal Organization of Subcellular Structures
https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/research/core-groups/brugues

 

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Frank Buchholz

Frank Buchholz

Research Group Leader 2001 – 2010

TU Dresden, Professor for Medical Systems Biology
Functional Genomics in mammalian cells: Applications to cancer- and stem cell-biology

 

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Christian Dahmann

Christian Dahmann

Research Group Leader 2001 – 2012

TU Dresden, Professor of Systems Biology and Genetics
www.tu-dresden.de

 

Stefan Diez

Stefan Diez

Research Group Leader 2004 – 2015

B CUBE, TU Dresden, Heisenberg Professorship for BioNanoTools
www.bcube-dresden.de

 

Christian Eckmann

Christian Eckmann

Research Group Leader 2004 – 2014

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg,
Heisenberg Professor of Developmental Genetics
https://blogs.urz.uni-halle.de/eckmannlab/

 

Suzanne Eaton

Suzanne Eaton

Research Group Leader 2000 – 2019

Remembering Suzanne

Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan

Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan

Research Group Leader 2000 – 2006

University of Geneva
cms.unige.ch

 

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Research Group Leader 2000 – 2010

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria)
www.ist.ac.at

 

Michael Hiller

Michael Hiller

Research Group Leader 2011 – 2021

Professor at LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (LOEWE-TBG), cooperation between Senckenberg Nature Research Society, and Goethe University

Alf Honigmann

Alf Honigmann

Research Group Leader 2015 – 2022

Biotechnology Center of the TU Dresden, Chair of Biophysics
https://tu-dresden.de/cmcb/biotec/forschungsgruppen/honigmann/uebersichtsseite

Joe Howard

Joe Howard

Director and Research Group Leader 2001 – 2014

Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Physics, Yale University
https://howardlab.yale.edu/

 

Jan Huisken

Jan Huisken

Research Group Leader 2010 – 2017

Director of Morgridge Medical Engineering Professor of Biomedical Engineering at University of Wisconsin, Madison
morgridge.org/research/medical-engineering/huisken-lab/

 

Florian Jug

Florian Jug

Research Group Leader 2017 – 2021

Human Technopole
https://humantechnopole.it/en/research-groups/jug-group/

Moritz Kreysing

Moritz Kreysing

Research Group Leader 2015 – 2023

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Professorship for Biophotonics in the Life Sciences

Teymuras Kurzchalia

Teymuras Kurzchalia

Research Group Leader 1998 – 2020

Eckhard Lammert

Eckhard Lammert

Research Group Leader 2002 – 2008

Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf
www.stoffwechsel.hhu.de

 

Daniel Müller

Daniel Müller

Research Group Leader 2001 – 2006

ETH Zürich
https://bsse.ethz.ch/department.html

 

Karla Neugebauer

Karla Neugebauer

Research Group Leader 2001 – 2014

Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/karla_neugebauer/

 

Caren Norden

Caren Norden

Research Group Leader 2010 – 2020

Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência, Deputy Director for Science
gulbenkian.pt/ciencia/homepage/igc/organization/board/caren-norden/

Andy Oates

Andy Oates

Research Group Leader 2003 – 2013

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
https://oateslab.epfl.ch/

 

Ewa Paluch

Ewa Paluch

Research Group Leader 2006 – 2013

Professor of Cell Biophysics, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, UK
www.ucl.ac.uk

Gaia Pigino

Gaia Pigino

Research Group Leader 2012 – 2020

Human Technopole
https://humantechnopole.it/en/research-groups/pigino-group/

Jochen Rink

Jochen Rink

Research Group Leader 2011 – 2020

Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
www.mpibpc.mpg.de/rink

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Elly Tanaka

Elly Tanaka

Research Group Leader 1999 – 2007

Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)
www.imp.ac.at

 

Christoph Thiele

Christoph Thiele

Research Group Leader 2000 – 2009

University of Bonn
www.limes.uni-bonn.de

 

Iva Tolic

Iva Tolic

Research Group Leader 2005 – 2014

Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia
www.irb.hr

 

Nadine Vastenhouw

Nadine Vastenhouw

Research Group Leader 2012 – 2021

Associate Professor at the Center for Integrative Genomics at the UNIL | University of Lausanne
https://www.unil.ch/cig/en/home/menuinst/research/prof-vastenhouw.html

Christiane Walch-Solimena

Christiane Walch-Solimena

Research Group Leader 2001 – 2007

Max Planck Society Administration
www.mpg.de

 

Wolfgang Zachariae

Wolfgang Zachariae

Research Group Leader 1999 – 2010

MPI of Biochemistry in Martinsried
www.biochem.mpg.de