Academic Appointments:

Jens Timmer studied Physics at the Universities of Oldenburg and Freiburg, Germany. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg in 1994 . Between 1996 and 1998, he was visiting scientist at Boulder University, Colorado, ETH Lausanne, New York University, Humboldt University, Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Potsdam University, and Heidelberg University. He became Full Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Freiburg in 2005. His group “Data Analysis and Modelling of Dynamic Processes in the Life Sciences” comprises 35 scientists from the fields of physics, mathematics, biology, and engineering.

Projects and Publications:

Dynamic processes are ubiquitous in the life sciences. They can be found from the regulation in cells up to oscillations in tremor. Malfunction of these dynamical processes can be a cause or a sign of diseases. In interdisciplinary projects, the group "Data Analysis and Modeling of Dynamic Processes in the Life Sciences" of Prof. Timmer develops and applies mathematical methods to analyse and model these processes based on measured data. The final aim is to help to turn the life sciences from a qualitative descriptive into a quantitative predictive science.

V. Becker, M. Schilling, J. Bachmann, U. Baumann, A. Raue, T. Maiwald,
J. Timmer, U. Klingmüller.
/ Covering a broad dynamic range: Information processing at the
erythropoietin receptor.
<http://webber.physik.uni-freiburg.de/%7Ejeti/papers/1404.pdf> /Science
*328*, 2010, 1404-1408

D. Onichtchouk, F. Geier, B. Polok, D. Messerschmidt, R. Mössner, B.
Wendik, S. Song, V. Taylor, J. Timmer, W. Driever.
/ Zebrafish Pou5f1-dependent transcriptional networks in temporal
control of early development.
<http://webber.physik.uni-freiburg.de/%7Ejeti/papers/msb20109.pdf>/
Molecular Systems Biology *6*, 2010, 354

M. Schilling, T. Maiwald, S. Hengl, D. Winter, C. Kreutz, W. Kolch, W.D.
Lehmann, J. Timmer, U. Klingmüller.
/ Theoretical and experimental analysis links isoform-specific ERK
signalling to cell fate decisions.
<http://webber.physik.uni-freiburg.de/%7Ejeti/papers/msb200991.pdf>
/Molecular Systems Biology *5*, 2009, 334

Sick S., Reinker S., Timmer J., Schlake T. /WNT and DKK determine hair
follicle spacing through a reaction-diffusion mechanism.
<http://webber.physik.uni-freiburg.de/%7Ejeti/papers/science_printed.pdf>/
# Science *314*, 2006, 1447-1450

Kollmann M., Bartholome K., Lovdok L., Timmer J., Sourjik V.
/ Design principles of a bacterial signalling network.
<http://webber.physik.uni-freiburg.de/%7Ejeti/papers/nature04228.pdf> /
Nature *438*, 2005, 504-507

Cooperations:

Driever, Hess, Reski, Palme

Teaching:

Professor regularly gives the Lecture "From Mathematical Biology to Systems Biology"
http://webber.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~jeti/vorles_mathbio_sysbio/vorles_mathbio_sysbio.html