Denis Schapiro

Dr. Denis Schapiro is an IFOM Group Leader, Managing Director of the Translational Spatial Profiling Center (TSPC) and Research Group Leader at the Medical Faculty of the Heidelberg University focusing on spatial omics technologies and analysis. He is also co-founder and the current president of the European Society for Spatial Biology (ESSB) e.V.

Before starting his groups in Heidelberg and Milan, he was an Independent Fellow at the Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School and the Klarman Cell Observatory at the Broad Institute where he was a Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellow mentored by Prof. Peter Sorger and Prof. Aviv Regev.

Denis obtained his PhD from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich in the laboratory of Prof. Bernd Bodenmiller where he worked on Imaging Mass Cytometry and corresponding analysis tools focusing on highly multiplexed image analysis. Prior to this, he received his diploma (Dipl. Biol. (t.o)) at the University of Stuttgart and Harvard Medical School working with Prof. Peter Sorger and Prof. Alfred Goldberg.