Prof Dr Thekla Cordes

With a diverse background in metabolism, mass spectrometry, metabolic flux analysis strategies, and bioprocess engineering, Prof Thekla Cordes brings an interdisciplinary and international perspective to her research. Her research focuses on investigating the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in mammalian metabolism by employing stable isotope tracer-assisted metabolic flux analysis to enhance our understanding of metabolism in health and disease.

Cordes began her academic journey by receiving a diploma in biotechnology from the Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany) before joining Novartis Biologics in Basel (Switzerland) to conduct research in bioprocess engineering. Cordes received her Ph.D. at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (Luxembourg). She was a DFG (German Research Foundation) Fellow and a Research Scientist at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and SALK Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla (USA). Cordes is currently a professor of Cellular Metabolism at the Institute for Biochemistry, Biotechnology, and Bioinformatics at the TU Braunschweig (Germany) and head of the group Cellular Metabolism in Infection (CMII) at Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI). The Cordes laboratory is located at the Braunschweig Integrative Centre of Systems Biology (BRICS).