Cornelis Weijer

Since 2010, Professor Kees Weijer has served as Head of Systems Biology at the College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee in the UK. His current research interest are the cell-cell signaling and signal transduction mechanisms that control cell movement of single cells and cells in multicellular tissues using the social amoebae, Dictyostelium discoideum and the chick embryo.

Dr. Weijer received his Ph.D. in developmental biology from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1985, and achieved his Habilitation in Zoology from the University of Munich, Germany in 1991. In 1982 he started work as research assistant in Developmental Biology at the Zoological Institute of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. He was appointed to lecturer in 1985, to senior lecturer in 1990. In 1996, he took a Reader position at the Department of Anatomy and Physiology at the University of Dundee. In 2000 he was promoted to Professor of Developmental Physiology in the College of Life Sciences at the same university. He was Deputy Head (2000-2005) and Head (2005-2010) of the Division of Cell and Developmental Biology. He was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2004.

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