Chaitanya

I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. Bill Watterson, (Calvin and Hobbes)

Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Professor- Theoretical Biology
Chair for Computational and Theoretical Biology Klara-Oppenheimer-Weg 32 Campus Hubland Nord 97074 Würzburg

My name is Chaitanya (first name) Gokhale (last name). I was born in Pune, which is a city in Central Western India (about 200 kms inland from Mumbai). Below is a web version of my curriculum vitae. For further detials visit my personal website

Personal Data

Citizenship: Indian
Place and Date of Birth: Pune, Maharashtra, India | 17 June 1984
Languages: Marathi (mother-tongue), English, German, Hindi

Awards & Fundings

Current

BayInt - Bayern International Collaboration Fund Marie Skłodowska Curie Doctoral Research Network (EvoGames+)

Previous

• Bundesamt für Naturschutz (Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Germany) - Potential risks of synthetic gene-drive systems and a request for monitoring.
• Royal Society of New Zealand: Marsden Fund, Associate Investigator with Paul Rainey: “Lineage selection and evolution of cancer”
• DFG Priority Program: SPP 1590 Principal Investigator grant - “Probabilistic Structures in Evolution”
• Otto Hahn Medal: Max Planck Society

Academic Positions

Current positions

2023 - Professor, CCTB, Julius-Maximilians University Wuerzburg, Germany 2016 - 2023 Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
2016 - 2023 Full Member, Kiel Evolution Center, Kiel, Germany

Post-doctoral experience

2014 - 2016 Post doctoral researcher, New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
2011 - 2014 Post doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany