Curriculum Vitae Andreas Mayer

Andreas Mayer studied Biology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich. He performed his PhD in the laboratory of Prof. Patrick Cramer at the Gene Center Munich, studying the molecular mechanisms of gene transcription. He received his PhD (summa cum laude) from the LMU in 2012. Funded by EMBO and HFSP fellowships, he then joined the laboratory of Prof. L. Stirling Churchman in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston as a postdoctoral fellow, continuing his research on the molecular mechanisms of gene transcription. After completing his postdoctoral studies, he returned to Europe and joined the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin as an independent Max Planck Research Group Leader in 2017. He has headed the Max Planck Research Group “High-resolution Functional Genomics” ever since. Since 2025, he has been a Professor of RNA Biology and Genomics, as well as Director of the Institute of Genomics and RNomics at the Biocenter of the Medical University Innsbruck. His research focuses on RNA biology, functional genomics, and disease mechanisms, particularly leukemias and neurological diseases.