Dr. Ünal Coskun has been nominated TUD Young Investigator. This makes him the thirteenth scientist to be given this title.

Dr. Coskun is head of the membrane biochemistry group at the Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden. Together with his team, he is investigating the effect of lipids on the structure and function of proteins.
Dr. Coskun studied Biology at Osnabrück University, and in 2005, gained his PhD at the Institute of Biophysics at Saarland University. From 2005 to 2012, he worked as a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Dresden.

As TUD Young Investigator, he will be affiliated to both the Medical Faculty and the Faculty of Science.