Olaf Rotzschke PhD

Olaf Rötzschke obtained his PhD in 1993 at the University of Tubingen, Germany, where he studied biochemistry. He started his immunology carrier at the Max-Planck Institute of Biology in the group of Hans-Georg Rammensee, where he isolated the first natural T cell antigen and resolved the primary structure of MHC ligands.

In 1993 he joined the group of Jack Strominger at Harvard University and in 2000 he moved to the Max-Delbrueck-Center in Berlin. He joined SIgN as Principal Investigator in July 2008 and in 2011 became Adjunct Associate Professor at the ‘Department of Microbiology’, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Adjunct Professor at the ‘Division of Molecular and Cell Biology’, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.