Dr Luca Laraia

Luca Laraia studied chemistry at Imperial College London, before moving to the University of Cambridge to carry out his Cancer Research UK-funded PhD in chemical biology with Prof. David R. Spring and Prof. Ashok R. Venkitaraman. After graduating in 2014 he moved to the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology (Dortmund, Germany), first as an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow and then as project leader in the chemical biology department with Prof. Herbert Waldmann. He moved to DTU in November 2017 to take up an Assistant Professorship in chemical biology and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021. His lab focuses on the development of chemical biology tools to study sterol-mediated processes.