Principal Investigator
Department of Urology, University Freiburg Medical Center
Breisacher Str. 66
79106 Freiburg
- +49(0)761 / 270-63120
- baerbel.hansen@uniklinik-freiburg.de
- W3 Professor of Medical Epigenetics, University of Freiburg
Academic Education
| 1972 – 1985 | Chemistry M.Sc. (cum laude), University of Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 1979 – 1982 | Chemistry B.Sc., University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Scientific Degrees
| 1990 | Ph.D. dissertation Molecular Biology and Carcinogenesis, University of Leiden (prof. A. van der Eb), The Netherlands |
Professional Experience
| since 2017 | DKTK-professor of Medical Epigenetics (W3) standort Freiburg, University Freiburg Medical Center |
| 2001 – 2017 | Full professor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Molecular Cancer Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| 1996 – 2000 | Associate professor, Laboratory for Physiological Chemistry, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| 1991 – 1996 | Assistant professor, Laboratory for Physiological Chemistry, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| 1990 – 1991 | Post-doctoral fellow with Prof. P.A. Sharp (1993 Nobel laureate in Medicine), Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.A. |
Other activities, awards and honours
| 2018 | PI SFB992/CRC992 |
| 2017 | PI SFB850/CRC850 |
| 2017 | EMBO member |
| 2017 | Academia Europaea member |
| 2016 – 2018 | Editor, Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| 2010 – 2016 | Organizer EMBL meeting of Transcription and Chromatin |
| 2010 | Organizer Keystone symposia, Big Sky, USA |
| 2009 – 2015 | Editor, The Journal of Biological Chemistry |
| 2007 | Organizer UNIA workshop, Baeza, Spain |
| 2003 – 2012 | Theme Leader of the Netherlands Proteomics Center |
| 2001 – 2003 | Instructor Summer Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories |
| 1998 | Pionier grant Medical Sciences NWO, The Netherlands |
| 1997 | Invitation for group leader, EMBL Grenoble, France; declined |
| 1991 – 1996 | Fellowship of the Royal Society for Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands |
| 1990 – 1991 | NATO post-doctoral fellowship |
