Tilman Lamparter works as a Professor of Botany at the Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften (JKIP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He graduated from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Alberts Ludwig Universität Freiburg and Freie Universität Berlin. His major interests are phytochromes, photolyases, photobiology of cyanobacteria and biotechnology with microalgae.