Oskar Hallatschek

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Oskar Hallatschek is leading a Max Planck Research Group at the MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, Germany (http://www.evo.ds.mpg.de/). The main goal of his current research is to quantify biophysical and rapid evolutionary processes in microbial populations, both theoretically and in the lab. Oskar Hallatschek received his doctorate in theoretical biophysics from the Free University in Berlin and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University.


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