Paulsson Lab

Paulsson Lab

Department of Systems Biology 

Harvard Medical School

Department of Systems Biology 

Harvard Medical School

Research Fellow

Research Fellow

E-mail: abc@asd.com

Andreas Hilfinger, Ph.D.

Phone: 617 432 6438

I was born in the bestest part of Germany. Some time and some (considerable) moving around later I studied mathematics and theoretical physics at Imperial College (in London) and Cambridge (the proper one). 

Narrowly avoiding the mysterious questions of cosmology I went to Dresden and worked on the slightly less abstract, but certainly not less interesting question of how sperm swim. A very fruitful collaboration between biophysicists at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, lead to a thesis on the Dynamics of Cilia and Flagella .

Not fearing the over-hyped buzz word of Systems Biology (and not being afraid of a life in a wet lab), I became part of Johan Paulsson's research group and have joined their efforts to shed some light on the sensational ability of cells to perform reliably (= to stay alive) working with a (from a human point of view) totally unreliable set of tools.