Christoph Merten's Biography

Christoph Merten, Principal Investigator, European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Christoph A. Merten (merten@embl.de) studied biochemistry at the University of Frankfurt and obtained his PhD on directed evolution of retroviral vectors at the Paul Ehrlich Institute in Langen, Germany. Subsequently he did a postdoc at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge (UK), focussing on in vitro compartmentalization techniques. In 2005 he moved to the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) in Strasbourg, France, where he became a junior group leader in 2007. Christoph joined the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, as a Principal Investigator in 2010, where his group focusses on miniaturizing biology and chemistry in microfluidic systems.