Karsten Hiller PhD

Dr Karsten Hiller is the head of the metabolomics group at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine. He obtained his diploma in Biology and Computer Science and performed his PhD in Bioinformatics and Microbiology at the University of Braunschweig, Germany and focused on the development of algorithms for the analysis of metabolomics data. Later on, he had an appointment as a postdoc in the group of Gregory Stephanopoulos at the department of Chemical Engineering, MIT where he worked on stable-isotope assisted metabolomics and cancer metabolism. His current work focuses on cellular metabolism in the context of inflammation and neurodegeneration. The current research is mainly funded by the ATTRACT research program of the Fonds Nationale de la Recherche Luxembourg (FNR).