Zhao-Qi Wang / 汪兆琦

The Person

• Birthplace
  Beijing
  
  
• Nationality
  Austria
  
  
• Position
  Professor, Senior Group Leader
  
  
• Address
  Leibniz Institute on Aging -- Fritz-Lipmann-Institute
  Beutenbergstrasse 11, 07745 Jena
  
  
  
• Telephone
  +49 3641 65-6415
  
  
• Email
  zhao-qi.wang@leibniz-fli.de
  
  
• Homepage
  https://www.leibniz-fli.de/research/research-groups/wang/
  
  

Education

• 1982
  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Department of Biology, Shandong University, China
  
  
• 1985
  Master of Science (M.Sc.), Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), China
  
  
• 1993
  Ph.D., Biochemistry Institute, Innsbruck University, Austria
  
  

Working experiences

• 1985
  Research Associate, Lecturer, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS), Beijing, China
  
  
• 1988
  Postdoctoral fellow, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (I.M.P.), Vienna, Austria
  
  
• 1993
  Staff Scientist, I.M.P., Vienna, Austria
  
  
• 1995
  Scientist, I.M.P., Vienna, Austria
  
  
• 1997
  Unit Chief and Group Head, Unit of Gene-Environment Interactions, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
  
  
• 2006
  Full Professor (W3), Faculty of Biological Sciences, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany, and Senior Group Leader, Leibniz Institute on Aging—Fritz-Lipmann-Institute (FLI), Jena, Germany
  
  

Research interests

• DNA repair and signaling
• Neurogenesis and neurodegeneration
• Stem cell fate
• Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation