Robert Schneider#
| Membership Number: | 5570 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/ife/index.html |
| Twitter: | @robert_ife |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 Director of “Institute for Functional Epigenetics (IFE)”, Helmholtz Center Munich and Professor at LMU, Munich Faculty of Biology
- 2012 - 2016 Directeur de Recherche (CNRS), IGBMC, Strasbourg, France, Head of “Functional Epigenetics and Chromatin Regulation” group
- 2005 - 2011 Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
- 2000 - 2004 Postdoc with T. Kouzarides at Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK (HFSP fellow)
- 1999 Visiting scientist at Baylor College, Houston
- 1996 - 2000 PhD at Ludwig-Maximilian Universität, Munich. Supervisor R. Kahmann
- 1996 Internship at the MRC LMB, Cambridge, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Chromatin
- Histone modifications
- Linker histone H1
- Transcriptional memory
- Epigenetics
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Speaker of Helmholtz International Epigenetics Research School “Epicrossborders”
- 2017 Membership of Research Coordination Board (RCB) German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD)
- 2016 Membership of Faculty, Faculty of Biology, LMU Munich
- 2014 Ligue Contre la Cancer, Equipe labelisée
- 2011 Fondation pour la recherche medicale (FRM), Equipe labelisée
- 2011 Membership of Epigenesys Network of Excellence
- 2011 Chaire Gutenberg awarded, Universite de Strasbourg (UdS)
- 2010 Member of BIOSS Excellence Cluster, University Freiburg
- 2007 ERC Starting Grant
- 2006 NET award (Newly established Team) Epigenome Network of Excellence
- 2005 HFSP Career Development Award
- 2002 HFSP Long-term fellowship
- 2001 EMBO Long-term fellowship
