Dominik Merges

Dominik Merges is a Scientist in Bioinformatics at BioNTech SE since April 2023, previously serving as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences from March 2022 to April 2023 and at Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung from May 2020 to March 2022. Dominik's research focuses on the diversity encoded in organismal genomes and its connections to climate and biotic interactions. Academic qualifications include a PhD in Biology from Goethe University Frankfurt (2015-2020), a Master of Science in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the same institution (2012-2015), a semester abroad in Medical Ethnobotany at the University of California, Berkeley (2012), and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2008-2012).