Manfred Kayser#
| Membership Number: | 7177 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.erasmusmc.nl/en/research/researchers/kayser-manfred |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4958-847X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025 - today Principal Investigator and Group Leader, Dept. of Pathology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam
- 2008 - today Full Professor (Type 1, Chair) of Forensic Molecular Biology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam
- 2015 - 2025 Head, Dept. of Genetic Identification, Erasmus MC (department closed by institutional reorganization 2025)
- 2006 - 2007 Visiting Professor for Evolutionary Genetics, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cologne
- 2004 - 2014 Founding Head, Dept. of Forensic Molecular Biology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam (renamed 2015)
- 2004 - 2008 Full Professor (Type 2) of Forensic Molecular Biology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam
- 2004 Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig
- 1999 - 2003 Staff Scientist, Dept. of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig
- 1998 - 1999 Research Associate, Genetics Laboratory, Dept. of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University
- 1994 - 1998 Scientist / PhD student, Genetics Research Laboratory, Dept. of Legal Medicine, Charité, Humboldt-University Berlin
Fields of Scholarship
- Forensic genomics
- Human evolutionary genetics
- Forensic molecular biology
- Human Y-chromosome genetics
- Forensic genetics
- Anthropological genetics
- Human population genetics
- Human appearance genetics
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Member Academia Europaea - The Academy of Europe
- 2023 Member European Molecular Biology Organization
- 2017 Scientific Prize International Society for Forensic Genetics
- 2004 Heisenberg Fellowship German Research Foundation
- 2004 International Fellowship Institute of Environmental Science and Research New Zealand
- 1998 PhD with summa cum laude Humboldt-University Berlin
- 1998 Research Award German Society of Legal Medicine
