Prof. Dr. Matthias Hammerschmidt - Curriculum Vitae
Education and Professional Career
since 2006: Full Professor (W3), Institute of Zoology, Developmental Biology Unit, University of Cologne, Germany. Projects on zebrafish and mouse development and physiology (skin and bone development and homeostasis; wound healing; energy homeostasis)
2001-2006: Tenured independent group leader at the Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany. Projects on zebrafish development and physiology (dorsoventral patterning; cell migration; pituitary, skin and craniofacial development; wound healing)
2001: Habilitation and award of 'venia legendi' in Developmental Biology at Albert Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany
1996-2000: Independent Junior Group leader in the Hans-Spemann Laboratories at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany. Projects on zebrafish development
1994-1996: Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Andrew McMahon at Harvard University, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Cambridge, USA. Projects on zebrafish and mouse development
1990-1993: PhD student in the laboratory of Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard at the Max-Planck Institute of Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany. Title of PhD thesis: Isolation and characterization of genes and mutants to analyze early pattern formation of the zebrafish embryo (Graduation Jan. 1994)
1983-1990: Studies of Biochemistry at the Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany