Alexander Stark#
| Membership Number: | 5850 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.imp.ac.at/groups/alexander-stark/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2611-0841 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2015 Senior Scientist, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria
- 2008 - 2014 Group Leader, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria
- 2005 - 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA
- 2004 - 2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
- 2001 - 2004 PhD Student, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Systems biology
- Enhancers
- Transcription
- Genomics
- Promoters
- CRMs
- Bioinformatics
- Gene regulation
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Adjunct Professor, Medical University Vienna
- 2015 EMBO Member
- 2015 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant
- 2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
- 2012 EMBO Young Investigator
- 2009 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
- 2005 Postdoctoral Fellowships from EMBO, Schering AG and HFSP
- 1997 Fellow of the German Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
