Dr. Marieke Oudelaar
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Marieke Oudelaar studied Biomedical Sciences, completing her BSc at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and her MSc at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. She then moved to the United Kingdom for her doctoral studies at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, where she obtained her PhD in 2018. She remained in Oxford for two more years as a Junior Research Fellow. In 2020, she moved to Germany to establish the independent research group “Genome Organization and Regulation” at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, with support from the Lise Meitner Excellence Program. In 2026, she was appointed Director at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg, where she now leads the Department of Genome Biology.
Research Interests
Marieke Oudelaar and her team aim to define the organizational principles of the 3D genome and determine how 3D genome structures contribute to precise regulation of gene expression during cellular differentiation and development. To this end, they develop and apply cutting-edge technologies to analyze genome folding and gene regulation across scales and biological contexts.
Selected Awards
Scientific achievements have been recognized by several honors, including the Radcliffe Department of Medicine Graduate Prize from the University of Oxford in 2018, the Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award in Biology in 2022, selection as an EMBO Young Investigator in 2023, and an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council in 2023.