Group leader Systems Biology of Inflammation

Dr. Kevin Thurley

Leibniz Best-minds program
Junior research group supported by the Leibniz Association

Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin
A Leibniz Institute
Charitéplatz 1
10117 Berlin Phone: +49 30 28460 734 kevin.thurley@drfz.de

CV

Scientific Career

Since 2018	Junior group leader “Systems Biology of Inflammation” at DRFZ, Berlin
2014 – 2017	Postdoctoral fellow with Profs. Steven Altschuler and Lani Wu, University of California San Francisco: “Response-time modeling of cell-cell communication networks”.
2011 – 2014	Postdoc position with Dr. Pal Westermark and Prof. Dr. Achim Kramer, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin: “Circadian control of biochemical networks“.
2009/10	Guest scientist with Prof. Colin Taylor, University of Cambridge, UK: “Live cell imaging of elementary Ca(2+) release events”.
2008 – 2011	Doctoral student with Prof. Dr. Martin Falcke, Max Delbrück Center Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin: “Hierarchical modeling and single-cell analysis of stochastic intracellular Ca(2+) signaling”.
2006/07	Diploma thesis with Prof. Dr. Thomas Höfer, HU Berlin and DKFZ Heidelberg: “Spatiotemporal modeling of cell-cell communication in T cells via Interleukin-2”.

Education

2011	PhD in Biophysics (Humboldt University Berlin), summa cum laude
2007	Diploma in Biophysics (Humboldt University Berlin)
2001 – 2007	Study of Biophysics at Humboldt University Berlin and Université Bordeaux II, France.

Thurley lab

Understanding the complex relationships among immune cells with mathematical tools