Alexander Skupin
Alexander Skupin is Professor for Integration and Modelling of Biomedical Data at the Luxembourg Center for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), an Affiliated Professor for Integrative Biophysics at Department of Physics and Material Science at the University of Luxembourg and a Project Scientist at the Department of Neuroscience at University of California San Diego (USA). He studied physics at the Humboldt University (HU) in Berlin where he worked on noise-induced effects in neuronal networks and an application to deep brain stimulation as treatment of Parkinson’s disease patients with Lutz Schimansky-Geier. He obtained his PhD in biophysics from the Humboldt University Berlin for his work on calcium oscillation with Martin Falcke. After a first postdoc with Oliver Ebenhöh at the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam focusing on metabolism including genome-scale modelling, he subsequently joined the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle (USA) and worked with Aimee Dudley on Systems Genetics, with Sui Huang on cell fate dynamics at single cell resolution and with David Galas on information flow in biological systems. In 2014, he started his interdisciplinary Integrative Cell Signalling research group at the LCSB where the team combines microscopy and single cell analysis techniques with bioinformatics analyses and theoretical concepts from physics to investigate underlying principles of brain disorders with a focus on neurodegeneration.