{"id":3541,"date":"2024-02-21T16:15:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T15:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/lcsb-en\/blog\/people\/paul-wilmes\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:58:54","slug":"paul-wilmes","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/lcsb-en\/people\/paul-wilmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul WILMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"person-template\">\n    <div class=\"wp-block-unilux-people-person-hero wp-block-unilux-blocks-hero\">\n            <section id=\"hero-page\" class=\"section py-0\">\n            <div class=\"max-w-screen-3xl mx-auto wp-block-unilux-blocks-hero\">\n                <div class=\"hero hero--overflow-none\">\n                    <header class=\"hero__header\">\n                        <div class=\"hero__container\">\n                            <span class=\"hero__title__subject\">\n                                Our People                            <\/span>\n                        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list-highlighted--architectural\"><li class=\"list-highlighted__item  wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item\">\n    <header class=\"list-highlighted__header wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-header\">\n    \n<h4 class=\"title text-18 font-bold has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"current-position\"\n    >\nCurrent position<\/h4>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-bigtext\">\n    <span>\n        \n    <\/span>\n<\/div><\/header><div class=\"list-highlighted__body wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-body\">\n    <div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-free-content-area\">\n    \n<p>Paul Wilmes is a Professor of Systems Ecology at the University of Luxembourg. He is the head of the Systems Ecology group and holds affiliations to the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine and the Department of Life Sciences and Medicine, and is a fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies. In 2024, Paul was a Visiting Professor at Stanford University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\n<li class=\"list-highlighted__item  wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item\">\n    <header class=\"list-highlighted__header wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-header\">\n    \n<h4 class=\"title text-18 font-bold has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"research\"\n    >\nResearch<\/h4>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-bigtext\">\n    <span>\n        \n    <\/span>\n<\/div><\/header><div class=\"list-highlighted__body wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-body\">\n    <div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-free-content-area\">\n    \n<p>Paul&#8217;s research focuses on elucidating the function of complex microbial communities in situ. He pioneered functional omic analyses of microbial consortia and his group has developed new wet- and dry-lab methods for in situ microbiome studies. He presented his group&#8217;s research at more than 200 scientific events worldwide and has published more than 180 peer-reviewed publications. He serves as the elected President of the Luxembourg Society for Microbiology and is an elected executive board member of the \u201cInstitut Grand-ducal, Section des Sciences naturelles,physiques et math\u00e9matiques\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\n<li class=\"list-highlighted__item  wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item\">\n    <header class=\"list-highlighted__header wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-header\">\n    \n<h4 class=\"title text-18 font-bold has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"awards-distinctions\"\n    >\nAwards\/Distinctions<\/h4>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-bigtext\">\n    <span>\n        \n    <\/span>\n<\/div><\/header><div class=\"list-highlighted__body wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-body\">\n    <div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-free-content-area\">\n    \n<p>Paul Wilmes has been awarded several prizes, including FNR Awards, the Grand Prix en Sciences de l\u2019Institut Grand-Ducal, and the Science for Society Prize. He has received frontier research grants from the European Research Council (ERC), including a Consolidator Grant in 2020 (ExpoBiome) and a Proof of Concept grant (AMY-Dx). &nbsp;Paul is the acting elected President of the Luxembourg Society for Microbiology, and an elected executive board member of the \u201cInstitut Grand-ducal, Section des Sciences naturelles, physiques et math\u00e9matiques\u201d. He is a British Chevening, German Academic Research Service, FNR ATTRACT, and Fulbright alumnus<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\n<li class=\"list-highlighted__item  wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item\">\n    <header class=\"list-highlighted__header wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-header\">\n    \n<h4 class=\"title text-18 font-bold has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"teaching\"\n    >\nTeaching <\/h4>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-bigtext\">\n    <span>\n        \n    <\/span>\n<\/div><\/header><div class=\"list-highlighted__body wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-body\">\n    <div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-free-content-area\">\n    \n<p>He is (co-)teaching the Microbiology module in the Bachelor in Medicine and the Biotechnology module in the Bachelor in Life Sciences, &nbsp;as well as Bioscience Seminar Series in the Master in Molecular and Computational Biomedicine.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\n<li class=\"list-highlighted__item  wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item\">\n    <header class=\"list-highlighted__header wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-header\">\n    \n<h4 class=\"title text-18 font-bold has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"outreach\"\n    >\nOutreach <\/h4>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-bigtext\">\n    <span>\n        \n    <\/span>\n<\/div><\/header><div class=\"list-highlighted__body wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-body\">\n    <div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-free-content-area\">\n    \n<p>Paul Wilmes has given extensive interviews with international media (e.g. National Geographic, Scientific American, Nature Medicine, The Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Bild der Wissenschaft, Radio-Canada, Swiss Public Radio SRF2, etc.) as well as national media (e.g. RTL Radio, RTL T\u00e9l\u00e9, 100,7, Luxemburger Wort, Paperjam, Journal, L\u00ebtzebuerger Land, Le Jeudi, etc.). These media outlets published content based on the research from my laboratory. He and his group have participated in several public exhibits, in particular the Luxembourg&#8217;s Researchers&#8217; Days.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\n<li class=\"list-highlighted__item  wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item\">\n    <header class=\"list-highlighted__header wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-header\">\n    \n<h4 class=\"title text-18 font-bold has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"work-experience\"\n    >\nWork experience<\/h4>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-bigtext\">\n    <span>\n        \n    <\/span>\n<\/div><\/header><div class=\"list-highlighted__body wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-body\">\n    <div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-free-content-area\">\n    \n<p>Between 2006 and 2009, Paul was a Postdoctoral research scholar in Jill Banfield&#8217;s group at the University of California, Berkeley (USA). 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