Uwe Sauer PhD

Uwe Sauer is Associate Professor for Systems Biology in the Institute for Molecular Systems Biology at the ETH Zurich. Born in Kassel (Germany) on February 5th 1963, he studied biology at the University Gottingen, where he obtained his PhD in microbiology with Professor P. Durre in 1993. After two years of postdoctoral research at the Institute of Biotechnology (ETH Zurich), he headed the Microbial Metabolic Engineering group under the supervision of Prof. Bailey at the same Institute from 96-99. Starting in 2000, he developed the independent research group Applied Systems Biology and Metabolic Engineering at the Institute of Biotechnology.

His research interests are complex metabolic networks in microbes and higher cells. The particular focus is on technology development for global and quantitative experimental methods in the area of metabolomics and fluxomics, and on data integration within computational models. He is a member of various international Editorial Boards and elected member in scientific steering and advisory committees of international organizations in systems biology and biotechnology.