Sergio Gomez Olarte

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Sergio Gomez Olarte

Scientist

Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research – UFZ
Department of Environmental Immunology
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

Phone: +49 341 6025-2346
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Sergio Gomez Olarte
Photo: Sebastian Wiedling/UFZ

Research Interests

  • Understanding how environmental factors, such as chemicals and polluters, can disrupt immune homeostasis, thereby inducing chronic inflammation, autoimmunity, and allergy
  • Development of advanced co-culture models of human trophoblast and immune cells to approach the effect of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs)
  • Modelling how exposure to EDCs modulates the immune response as a key mechanism for the onset of inflammatory and metabolic diseases


Curriculum vitae / Scientific career

Since 2024

Scientist, Department of Environmental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany

2019 - 2023

Doctorate, degree: Dr. rer. nat., Biomedical Center, Institute for Immunology
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Munich, Germany

2017 - 2019

Master in Biological Sciences. Area: Microbiology (Cum Laude)
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

2011 - 2016

Microbiologist and Bioanalyst (Cum Laude)
Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia


Awards

2020 - 2023

Scholar of The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Research Grants, Doctoral Programmes in Germany 2020/21

2019 - 2020

Starting Doctoral Stipend, Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1054, German Research Foundation (DFG)


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