Kai Simons was born in 1938 in Helsinki, Finland. In 1964, he graduated from the University of Helsinki as a medical doctor, followed by postdoctoral work at Rockefeller University in New York,…
Elisabeth Knust was born in 1951. She completed her PhD in biology at the University of Düsseldorf in 1979 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Clinical Virology at the…
Anthony A. Hyman was born in 1962 in Haifa (Israel). Hyman was educated at the University College London and at King's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a PhD in 1987. He did a postdoc at…
Meritxell Huch was born in 1978 in Barcelona, Spain and studied Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Barcelona. She obtained her PhD on Biomedicine at the Center for Genomic Regulation in…
Stephan Grill was born in 1974 in Heidelberg and studied physics at the University of Heidelberg. He received his PhD from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg and the University…
Managing Director (July 2023 to June 2025)
Anne Grapin-Botton was born in 1967 in La Rochelle, France. She studied biology at the UPMC University Pierre and Marie Curie and Ecole Normale…
Max Planck Fellows
The Max Planck Fellows program aims to strengthen cooperation between Max Planck Institutes and universities. University teaching staff can be appointed as Max Planck Fellows…
Biopolis Dresden Imaging Platform (BioDIP)
The Biopolis Dresden Imaging Platform (BioDIP) is a community of core microscopy and imaging facilities on the Biopolis Dresden campus, providing…
Center for Advanced Systems Understanding
The Center for Advanced Systems Understanding in Görlitz unites the partners Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden – Rossendorf (HZDR), Helmholtz Centre…
