Prof Mathias Munschauer, Affiliated Group Leader

Mathias Munschauer started working with RNA and RNA-binding proteins as an undergraduate student in the lab of Thomas Tuschl at Rockefeller University in New York (USA), where he also completed his master’s thesis. He then joined an international PhD exchange program jointly operated by the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin (working with Markus Landthaler) and at New York University (working with Christine Vogel). For his postdoctoral research, he joined the lab of Eric Lander at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Since 2019, he has headed an independent Helmholtz Young Investigator Group at the Helmholtz Institute Würzburg (HIRI). In 2023, he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Frankfurt.