The Institute of Biochemistry at the University of Stuttgart warmly welcomes Prof. Johann Rohwer as a Humboldt Research Fellow and Visiting Professor, supported by the Cluster of Excellence EXC 2075 "Data-integrated Simulation Science" (SimTech) and the Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1333.
Prof. Rohwer, currently based at Stellenbosch University (South Africa), is a leading expert in molecular systems biology. His research combines theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches to understand the dynamic behaviour of complex biochemical networks. Since 2000, he has led the Molecular Systems Biology Group at Stellenbosch, which he co-founded alongside Profs. Jannie Hofmeyr and Jacky Snoep. His group has played a pioneering role in quantitative modelling and systems-level analysis of metabolic processes.
Prof. Rohwer has a long-standing relationship with German research institutions: he held an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2008 at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam-Golm, followed by a research stay in 2016 at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena.
During his current stay in Stuttgart, Prof. Rohwer will collaborate closely with his host, Prof. Jürgen Pleiss, who is a Participating Researcher in SimTech and an active member of the SIGDIUS Group (Special Interest Group on Data-Integrated University Seminars). Their joint work focuses on FAIR data analytics in enzymology, particularly in the context of time-resolved NMR spectroscopy and the kinetic modelling of complex catalytic systems.
“The interdisciplinary collaboration with colleagues from EXC 2075, CRC 1333, and Research Unit 5596 will inspire novel approaches to data management and analysis,” Prof. Rohwer remarks, “and will foster the transfer of enzyme modelling techniques into other areas of chemistry and engineering. I am deeply grateful to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the German Research Foundation for enabling this research stay.”