Thomas STEINACKER

Thomas STEINACKER

  • Postdoc
  • Research Gerlich

Biographical sketch

Thomas was born in Austria and completed his BSc in Food and Biotechnology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU) and his MSc in Molecular Biology at the University of Vienna, where he discovered his passion for microscopy and technology development. He completed his PhD in the Raff laboratory at the University of Oxford, where he established a robust Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy platform to measure centriolar and centrosomal proteins in living Drosophila embryos. In 2022 he joined the Gerlich laboratory, where he established an imaging platform based on chromatin fibre tracing to visualise how sister chromatids rearrange in three-dimensional space during DNA double-strand break repair. His research is supported by a European Commission Marie Skłodowska-Curie, an EMBO, and a VIP2 Postdoctoral fellowship. Outside work, he enjoys sports and playing the zither.