Florian Markowetz
Florian Markowetz is a Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. He is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder and received a CRUK Future Leader in Cancer Research prize. He holds degrees in Mathematics (Dipl. math.) and Philosophy (M.A.) from the University of Heidelberg and a Dr. rer. nat. (PhD equivalent) in Computational Biology from Free University Berlin, for which he was awarded an Otto-Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society. His group at the CRUK Cambridge Institute combines computational work on cancer evolution and image analysis of the tumour tissue with experimental work on understanding key cancer mechanisms like the estrogen receptor.
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Vita
2017 - 2022
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder
since 02/2014
Senior group leader (tenured) at Univ. of Cambridge, CRUK Cambridge Institute
01/2009 - 02/2014
Junior group leader at Univ. of Cambridge, CRUK Cambridge Institute
07/2006 - 12/2008
Postdoctoral research in the Lewis-Sigler Insitute for Integrative Genomics at
Princeton University, Princeton, USA. Advisor: OG Troyanskaya
01/2002 - 06/2006
Doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin,
Germany. Advisors: R Spang, M Vingron
06/1999 - 12/2001
Research assistant at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg,
Germany. Advisor: M Vingron
Degrees
Computational Biology: Dr. rer. nat.
Free University Berlin, Germany, 2006
[ thesis ]
Philosophy: Magister Artium
University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2002
[ thesis ]
Mathematics: Diplom-Mathematiker
University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2001
[ thesis ]
Awards and Honors
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2017
CRUK Future Leader Price, 2016
Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society, 2006
PhD summa cum laude, Free University Berlin