Native of the Netherlands, trained as a molecular geneticist at Leiden University and as a cell biologist in San Diego, Lars runs a team at the Department of Biochemistry at Oxford aimed at understanding chromatin-based epigenetic inheritance.
Lars is also a Professor of Molecular Genetics at the Department of Biochemistry, lecturing on Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry topics across our undergraduate course.
Lars is the organizing tutor for biochemistry at St Edmund (Teddy) Hall covering in-depth tutorials on a range of molecular genetics and molecular and cellular biology topics.
2021 - Professor of Molecular Genetics. Department of Biochemistry, Oxford
2020 - William R Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, St Edmund Hall, Oxford
2020 - 2021 Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Oxford
2018 - 2024 Wellcome Senior Research Fellow. Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK
2019 Science Research Fellow, St john´s College, Oxford
2008 - 2018 Principal Investigator, Laboratory for Epigenetic Mechanisms Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal
2004 - 2008 Postdoctoral fellow - Advisor: Dr. Don W. Cleveland, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, La Jolla, CA
2003 Postdoctoral fellow - Advisor: Dr. Kevin F. Sullivan, The Scripps Research Institute, Dept. of Cell Biology, La Jolla, CA
1997 - 2002 Doctoral training (PhD)- Advisor: Dr. Jaap Brouwer, Leiden University, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, The Netherlands
2003 - 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, La Jolla, CA and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
2002 PhD degree, Mathematics and Natural Sciences Department of Molecular Genetics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands