Professor Harald Janovjak

Professor Harald Janovjak received his undergraduate degree (in 2002) and doctorate degree (in 2005) in biology/biophysics from the Biocenter of the University of Basel and the University of Technology Dresden. After post-doctoral research at the University of California Berkeley as an EMBL Long-Term Fellow and at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Harald joined the Institute of Science and Technology Austria near Vienna as an Assistant Professor in 2011. In 2018, Harald relocated to Australia as an EMBL Australia group leader and Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Monash University. Since 2022, Harald is a Matthew Flinders Professor in Molecular Medical Bioengineering at Flinders University and the head of the Synthetic Physiology Laboratory.

In the course of his independent research career, Harald supervised >10 HDR students, >20 Honours/MS/BS/Medical students, published >80 research articles (as a senior author in Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Communications, EMBO Journal, Angewandte Chemie, JACS), and attracted $7,900,000 competitive grant funding ($6,800,000 as the lead investigator). Harald is the founding chair of Optogenetics Australia (2018-2022) and an ARC Future Fellow (2022-2025).

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