Hernan Lopez-Schier

Hernán López-Schier
Personal details
Born	Buenos Aires
Nationality	Argentina
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Scientific career
Fields	Developmental biology Neuroscience
Institutions	The Rockefeller University University of Cambridge Centre for Genomic Regulation Harvard University National Institute of Genetics Helmholtz Center Munich New York University Abu Dhabi
Thesis	(2002)
Doctoral advisor	Daniel St Johnston

Dr. Hernán López-Schier is a developmental biologist and neuroscientist known for his work on sensory biology and organ regeneration. He is currently Lecturer at the Graduate School of Quantitative Biology at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, and Visiting Professor at the New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Education

López-Schier studied chemical biology. After working as front-end web developer at Roche, he pursued a Master’s in molecular genetics at the Rockefeller University in New York City. In 1997 he moved to the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom to pursue a PhD in genetics and cell biology at the Gurdon Institute under the mentorship of Daniel St Johnston, FRS.

Career

After his PhD in 2002, López-Schier joined the group of A. James Hudspeth at at the Rockefeller University as a Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Life Science Research Foundation as Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellow. In 2007 he moved to the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain, as junior group leader, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Research Council. Between 2012 and 2023 he was research unit director at the Helmholtz Center Munich, and member of the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Other academic positions were as Visiting Scholar at the National Institute of Genetics in Mishima, Japan in 2008 and 2019, Visiting Scientist at the Janelia Research Campus in 2014, Visiting Professor at Harvard University from 2019 to 2021, and member of the Professional Development Committee at the Society for Neuroscience from 2020 to 2023. In 2019, he was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the biotechnology company Sensorion.