Tobias J. Erb PhD

Tobias Erb studied chemistry and biology and worked for his PhD at the University of Freiburg and the Ohio State University (US). After a postdoctoral stint at the University of Illinois (US), he founded his junior research group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich from 2011-2014. In 2014 Tobias Erb moved to Marburg, where he headed an independent Max Planck Research Group. Erb received multiple awards for his research including those of the Swiss, as well as the German Societies for Microbiology and an ERC Starting Grant. In 2015, he was named one of 12 up- and coming scientists by the American Chemical Society. Last year, Tobias Erb received the Heinz-Maier-Leibniz prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG).