Dr. Hagen Hofmann

Dr. Hagen Hofmann was born in Sangerhausen, Germany. He completed an MS in biochemistry with distinction at Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg, Germany in 2004 and received his PhD summa cum laude in biochemistry in 2008 at the same institution. In 2006, he visited the Weizmann Institute as a research fellow in the lab of Prof. Gilad Haran in the Department of Chemical Physics. Dr. Hofmann was as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, from 2008 until joining the Department of Structural Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2014.
Dr. Hofmann uses microfluidic devices which can isolate single cells for observation under powerful microscopes, and single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy to zoom in on specific molecules within single living cells to identify the action of individual molecules in a living cell. In his new lab, he will explore what happens, step by step, in vital processes such as the transcription of genes, and the production and folding of proteins. His efforts will combine tools and theories from molecular biophysics and systems biology, drawing on both theorists and experimentalists in biology and physics.
His academic and professional awards include scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation and a Max-Buchner Research Grant from the DECHEMA (Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology).
He is married and has two children