Thomas Flatt
Professor, and department president
thomas.flatt@unifr.ch
+41 26 300 8833
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5990-1503
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Department Head,
Department of Biology
PER 23 bu. 1.01
Ch. Du Musée 15
1700 Fribourg -
Professor,
Department of Biology
PER 23 bu. 1.01
Ch. Du Musée 15
1700 Fribourg
Professor, and department president
Biography
Thomas Flatt is Full Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Head of the Department of Biology at the University of Fribourg. Thomas' research interests are the genomic basis of adaptation, the evolution life histories and aging, and population genetics. Thomas received his M.Sc. from the University of Basel in 1999 (supervisor: Prof. Stephen Stearns), for work done at the University of Sydney with Prof. Richard Shine, and his Ph.D. from Fribourg in 2004 (supervisor: Prof. Tadeusz Kawecki). Between 2004 and 2008, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University with Prof. Marc Tatar and a visiting postdoc with Prof. Neal Silverman at UMass Medical School, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Roche Research Foundation. Prior to taking up his position in Fribourg in 2017, he was a SNSF Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Lausanne (2012-17), a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (2012), a faculty member of the Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics and a tenured group leader at the Institute of Population Genetics in Vienna (2009-12). Between 2018 and 2021 he held a DFG Mercator Fellowship and Visiting Professorship at the University of Münster. He has been serving on numerous editorial, advisory and reviewing panels and, with Josefa Gonzalez (Barcelona), co-leads an international consortium of researchers, the European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU). He also serves as member of the National Research Council, the scientific body of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).