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EMBL Australia Group Leader, Cell Motility and Mechanobiology Lab, UNSW Sydney

Dr. Maté Biro received his PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Germany in 2011. He previously studied Physics (BSc) and then Bioinformatics and Theoretical Systems Biology (MSc) at the Imperial College in London, UK, and did his Masters research at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. He has worked at a particle accelerator in Tsukuba, Japan and as a Research Associate at the Bioinformatics Institute of the A*STAR in Singapore. In 2012, he moved to Sydney, Australia, first working at the University of Sydney, before joining EMBL Australia as a group leader at the Single Molecule Science node at UNSW in January 2016. His research, highly multidisciplinary in nature and reliant on advanced light microscopy, focuses on the movements and interactions of T cells and tumour cells.

Experience

  • 2016–present
    EMBL Australia Group Leader, Cell Motility and Mechanobiology Lab, EMBL Australia node in Single Molecule Science, UNSW
  • 2012–2016
    Head of Cellular Mechanobiology, Research Officer, Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, The University of Sydney
  • 2008–2011
    International Max Planck Research School PhD Fellow, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany
  • 2011–2011
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany
  • 2007–2007
    Research Associate, Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, Singapore
  • 2004–2004
    Research Intern, Belle Collaboration, KEK: High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation, Japan

Education

  • 2011 
    Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, PhD Biophysics
  • 2006 
    Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, MSc Bioinformatics & Diploma of the Imperial College
  • 2005 
    Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, BSc (Hons) Physics

Honours

BSc (Hons) ARCS MSc DIC PhD