Prof. Dr. Yang Li

Yang Li is a Principal Investigator in SP12.

Her research focus lies on the interaction of genetic background and environment, and its contribution to infection and immune-related diseases.

Prof. Li was the invited organizer for the education workshops on “Analyzing Big Data” at the European Immunology Conference in Amsterdam in 2018 and has been a lecturer in Braunschweig and Hannover since 2019.

Year Position
Since 2020 Deputy Topic Speaker for the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig
Since 2019 Director of Centre for Individualized Infection Medicine (CiiM), Hannover. Full Professor (W3) of Computational Biology & Head of Department of Computational biology for individualized medicine, CiiM, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Hannover
2013-2019 Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
2010-2013 Postdoc, Groningen Bioinformatics Centre (GBiC), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
2010 Doctorate degree, Groningen Bioinformatics Centre, University of Groningen, The Netherlands (Supervisors: Prof. Reiner Breitling, Prof. Ritsert Jansen)
1999 Master of Science, Hunan University, China