Joachim Wittbrodt

Joachim Wittbrodt received his doctorate degree from the Gene Center in University of Munich under the supervision of Manfred Schartl in 1990. After working for a year as a postdoctoral fellow in the same institute, he moved to work with Frederic Rosa at the University of Basel's Biocentre in Switzerland until 1994. He was then appointed Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Gottingen in 1995. After earning his habilitation in cell biology and developmental biology from the Technical University of Brauschweig in 1998, he took on a position as Group Leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany. He was appointed Full Professor at the University of Heidelberg’s Institute of Zoology in 2007, and co-appointed as director at the Institute for Toxicology and Genetics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Dr. Wittbrodt's current research interest lies in understanding the molecular and genetic mechanisms of vertebrate retinogenesis, looking at systemic approaches towards organ morphogenesis, as well as studying computational and experimental approaches to transcriptional networks in development and evolution.