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Florian Markowetz is a Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. He is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder and received a CRUK Future Leader in Cancer Research prize. He holds degrees in Mathematics (Dipl. math.) and Philosophy (M.A.) from the University of Heidelberg and a Dr. rer. nat. (PhD equivalent) in Computational Biology from Free University Berlin, for which he was awarded an Otto-Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society. His group at the CRUK Cambridge Institute combines computational work on cancer evolution and image analysis of the tumour tissue with experimental work on understanding key cancer mechanisms like the estrogen receptor.

Additional areas of expertise:

Plant science, Quantitative genetics.

I am a postdoctoral fellow at The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK. My research interests are mitochondrial and redox biology, cancer research, tumor suppressors, mitochondrial stress signaling, mitochondrial dynamics, reactive oxygen species, apoptosis, hypoxia, transcriptional cyclins, mitochondrial DNA inheritance, mitochondrial recombination, mitochondrial DNA polymerase gamma, cytochrome c oxidase, germline development, and Drosophila genetics.

I’ve been working in the Department of Psychiatry for almost a decade now. I specialise in improving process and workflow and in research data management. I also work in branding, digital recruitment, website design and administration, social media management, and data architecture. I am particularly good at thinking of new and creative solutions to emerging problems. I am currently working on ways to govern and organise the many research projects within my department and in the School of Clinical Medicine, and on creating ways to share research and imaging data (MRI, PET etc) openly.