Ralf Sommer

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Ralf Sommer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, where he previously worked as a Young Investigator. He is also Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research in the field of evolutionary biology combines laboratory studies with fieldwork to investigate how developmental phenotypic plasticity influences biological diversity. Sommer is a recipient of the Falcon Prize of the German Society for Cell Biology and an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).