Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hanspeter Herzel

University Education

• 1979-1984  Studies of Physics, HU Berlin
• 1984-1986  Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, HU Berlin
• 1990  Habilitation, HU Berlin

Professional Experience (selection)

• 1986-1993  Postdoctoral research fellow, HU Berlin, University of Moscow and Universität Bremen
• 1993-1996  Heisenberg fellow (DFG) TU Berlin and University of Iowa, USA
• 1996-2003  Professor of Molecular and Cellular Evolution, HU Berlin
• Since 2003  Professor of Theoretical Biology, Charité

Research Fields

• i)    Modeling
• ii)   Bioinformatics
• iii)  Chronobiology

Most important Awards, Grants or Scientific Achievements

• 1986 Humboldt-Prize

Selected References

• Finger, A.M., Jäschke, S., Del Olmo, M., Hurwitz, R., Granada, A.E., Herzel, H., Kramer, A. (2021) "Intercellular coupling between peripheral circadian oscillators by  TGF-β signaling." Sci Adv. 2021 Jul 23;7(30):eabg5174. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abg5174. Print 2021 Jul.
• Del Olmo, M., Kramer, A., Herzel, H. (2019) "A Robust Model for Circadian Redox Oscillations." Int J Mol Sci. 2019 May 13;20(9):2368. doi: 10.3390/ijms20092368.
• Pett, J.P., Kondoff, M., Bordyugov, G., Kramer, A., Herzel, H. (2018) "Co-existing feedback loops generate tissue-specific circadian rhythms." Life Sci Alliance.eCollection 2018 Jun. PMID: 30456356.
• 2018 Jun 14;1(3):e201800078. doi: 10.26508/lsa.201800078. Wittenbrink, N., Ananthasubramaniam, B., Münch, M., Koller, B., Maier, B., Weschke,  C., Bes, F., de Zeeuw, J., Nowozin, C., Wahnschaffe, A., Wisniewski, S., Zaleska, M., Bartok, O., Ashwal-Fluss, R., Lammert, H., Herzel, H., Hummel, M., Kadener, S., Kunz, D., Kramer, A. (2018) "High-accuracy determination of internal circadian time from a single blood sample."  J Clin Invest. 2018 Aug 31;128(9):3826-3839. doi: 10.1172/JCI120874. Epub  2018 Aug 6. PMID: 29953415.
• Druzd, D., Matveeva, O., Ince, L., Harrison, U., He, W, Schmal, C., Herzel, H., Tsang, A.H., Kawakami, N., Leliavski, A., Uhl, O., Yao, L., Sander, L.E., Chen, C.S., Kraus, K., de Juan, A., Hergenhan, S.M., Ehlers, M., Koletzko, B., Haas, R., Solbach, W., Oster, H., Scheiermann, C. (2017) "Lymphocyte Circadian Clocks Control Lymph Node Trafficking and Adaptive Immune Responses." Immunity. 2017 Jan 17;46(1):120-132. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2016.12.011. Epub 2017 Jan 10.  PMID: 28087238.