Carsten Watzl

Carsten Watzl studied Biology in Heidelberg. During his PhD work at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg in the department of Peter Krammer, he focused on the signal transduction of the CD95 (APO-1/Fas) receptor (back then he was called Carsten Scaffidi). As a postdoctoral researcher he investigated the regulation of Natural Killer cells in the lab of Eric Long at the NIH (NIAID). In 2002 he returned to Germany as head of a junior research group at the Institute for Immunology at the University of Heidelberg where he continued to work on the topic of Natural Killer cells. In 2011, he became the scientific director of the Department of Immunology at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo) at TU Dortmund.