Thomas Stoeger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - PI
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Northwestern University
Role: Thomas Stoeger is an expert on the integration of heterogeneous data sources and in the systemwide study of the research enterprise. He supervises one graduate student working on the study of the NHGRI archives in collaboration with Donohue (NHGRI). Stoeger leads the Outreach and Community Building Group.
Bio: Anticipating a never-dull career in biology, Thomas pursued molecular biology studies in Vienna, working with Juergen Knoblich on fruit fly research. For his PhD in Zurich, he joined the team of Lucas Pelkmans and co-pioneered the first generation of spatial transcriptomics. Later, as a postdoc, he joined Luis Amaral’s lab at Northwestern as a Data Science Scholar, focusing on the mechanics of scientific research. This interest segued into research on aging alongside Rick Morimoto and Scott Budinger. With the backing of a K99/R00 grant, Thomas became an Assistant Professor in Northwestern’s Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care and The Potocsnak Longevity Institute and Simpson Querrey Lung Institute for Translational Science in October 2023.