Professor, Center for Neurobiology and Brain Restoration, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
Biography
Philipp Khaitovich completed undergraduate studies in molecular biology at Moscow State University in 1995 and PhD in biochemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1999. From 2000 till 2006 Philipp worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology at the department of Evolutionary Genetics headed by Prof. Svante Pääbo.In September 2006, Philipp took a faculty position at the Institute for Compu-tational Biology jointly established by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Max Planck Society in Shanghai China. In 2012 Philipp was promoted to an institute director posi-tion.From 2012, Philipp is a fellow member of Max Planck Society of Germany, as well as ad-junct Professor at ShanghaiTech University in Shanghai, China.Philipp joined Skoltech as a Full Professor in April 2014