Axel Imhof's Biography

Axel Imhof, Group Leader, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich

Axel Imhof studied biology at the University of Regensburg and graduated at the University Regensburg in 1995 After a three years postdoctoral period at the Laboratory of Molecular Embryology (Head: Dr. Alan P. Wolffe) within the National Institutes of Health he became an independent group leader at the Adolf-Butenandt Institute of the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU). Since 2005 he is a full professor for protein analytics at the LMU. His lab focuses on the characterization of chromatin bound proteins and the characterization of histone modifications using mass spectrometry. He serves as academic editor for PlosONE, Chromatin and Epigenetics and Molecular Biosystems. He is a member of the European Network of Excellence EpiGeneSys and a national Cluster of Excellence Center of Protein Science Munich.