Lars M. Steinmetz PhD

Lars Steinmetz grew up in Germany, Switzerland, and the USA. He studied molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University and conducted his Ph.D. research on genome-wide approaches to study gene function and natural phenotypic diversity with Ron Davis at Stanford University. After a brief period of postdoctoral research at the Stanford Genome Technology Center, where he worked on functional genomic technology development, he moved back to Europe in 2003, where he opened his own group at the EMBL in Heidelberg.