Prof. Maria Robles, PhD.
Acting Chair, Head Systems Chronobiology
Institute of Medical Psychology
Professor of Medical Psychology and Biological Timing
Office address:
Goethestrasse 31
About Me
Maria Robles studied Biology at the University of Leon (Spain), then moved to Madrid to pursue a doctorate at the Universidad Autónoma, where she investigated apoptotic mechanisms in the immune system. After that, she works as a postdoc in the laboratory of Charles Weitz at Harvard Medical School where she established the first in vivo system to identify circadian core clock components using interaction proteomics. She then joined the laboratory of Matthias Mann at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry with a Marie Curie Grant, pioneering the application of quantitative proteomics to the circadian field. Her work included the first description of endogenous daily rhythms in proteome and phosphorylation, both in total mouse livers and isolated mitochondria. Since 2017 Maria has been a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at LMU Munich, studying circadian clock and sleep mechanisms from molecular to system levels using mass spectrometry-based quantitative proteomics.
In 2020, Maria Robles received the Junior Faculty Research Award by the international Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR), in 2021 she was selected as EMBO Young Investigator and in 2023 a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Investigator after receiving a Neuroscience Collaborative Pairs Pilot Award.