We are delighted to announce that Dr Philipp Baumert has successfully applied for a significant Postdoc fellowship from the EuroTech Alliance together with Prof Henning Wackerhage (Chair of Exercise Biology) and Prof Lars Keld Nielsen (Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark). The EuroTech Postdoc programme is cofounded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA; Horizon 2020), and, therefore, Philipp Baumert will be a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow. The programme allowes candidates to apply for one of ten 2-year postdoctoral positions at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) or other 30 candidates at one of the EuroTech Alliance members (DTU, TU/e, l’X and EPFL). The fellowship further enables interdisciplinary research projects across the Alliance partners.
Philipp Baumert has previously completed his PhD at the Liverpool John Moores University at the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences last winter, where he investigated the association between genetic variations and the response to muscle damaging exercise. Together with the previously received TUM University Foundation Fellowship (TUFF), this fellowship will support Philipp Baumert to conduct the research project ‘Muscleflux’ in the area of metabolism during skeletal muscle hypertrophy with an interdisciplinary approach by using modern metabolic flux analysis. This research might path the way to further explore the underlying mechanisms of skeletal muscle hypertrophy and it could discover new molecular pathways responsible for consequential muscle damage by diseases such as of diabetes mellitus. We would like to thank Dr Michaela-Rosemarie Hermann of the Bavarian Research Alliance (BayFOR) for the quality support and feedback during the writing process of the grant proposal.