Kiran studied Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (Mumbai, India). He moved to the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) to work with Prof. Jens Nielsen and obtained his PhD in Systems Biology. Kiran was then appointed as Assistant Professor at DTU where he worked on transcriptional regulation and metabolic engineering. In 2010, Kiran joined the Structural and Computational Biology Unit at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany). He was appointed Director of Research at the MRC Toxicology Unit (University of Cambridge) in 2019. The Patil lab has developed novel tools and model systems to decipher metabolic interactions in complex microbial communities.
Current and previous positions
2019 – Director of Research, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
2010 – 2021 Group leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
2007 – 2010 Asst. Professor, Dept. of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark
2003 – 2006 PhD student, Dept. of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark
2002 – 2003 Research assistant, Center for Microb. Biotechnol., Technical University of Denmark