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Ibrahim I. Cissé, PhD.
Senior Group Leader & Director
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Ibrahim Cissé was born in Niger. He received his Bachelor of Sciences in Physics in 2004 from North Carolina Central University and completed his PhD in physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) in 2009. After a postdoctoral stay at the École Normale Supérieure of Paris (France), Cissé returned to the USA in 2013 to become a Research Specialist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia. In 2014, he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, where he was first an assistant professor of Physics and then promoted to associate professor in the Department of Physics with a joint appointment in biology. In 2021, Ibrahim Cissé joined the MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (USA), where he was appointed as a Professor of Physics. In Freiburg, he is head of the Department of Biological Physics.
Ibrahim Cissé received multiple national and international awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, the Young Fluorescence Investigator Award from the Biophysical Society, The Pew Biomedical Scholars, and the National Institutes of Health New Innovator Award.
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