Description

Katia Cosentino is a Junior Professor of Molecular Cell Biophysics at the University of Osnabrück, Germany.
Katia obtained a master degree in chemistry (2007) at the University of Calabria, Italy where she also received her PhD (2010).
She spent part of her PhD at the ETH in Zurich where she developed a great interest in biophysics and membrane biology.
After her PhD, she worked at the DKFZ, Heidelberg and as a Max-Planck fellow at the Institute of Biochemistry, Tübingen, Germany.
In 2018, she started her independent group at the same institute and, in 2019, she moved to the University of Osnabrück.
Her group interfaces research tools from the biophysics, biochemistry and cell biology fields to explore molecular mechanisms of regulated cell death by the use of high-resolution microscopy. Her current research focuses on Gasdermin proteins and on their mechanisms of membrane permeabilization during the execution of pyroptosis cell death.