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Anders obtained an undergraduate Master’s degree in Chemistry from Oxford University in 2010. He received a PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Harvard University in 2015, where he worked with Erin O’Shea on applied systems biology approaches to understand how cells encode and transmit information through the dynamics of transcription factor activation. Following this, he conducted post-doctoral research at UC Berkeley under Robert Tjian and Xavier Darzacq, where he developed new imaging techniques to dissect the dynamics of architectural proteins at single-molecule resolution in living cells. In early 2020, Anders joined MIT as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Engineering, where his lab focuses on understanding and engineering 3D genome structure and function. His research interests include the exquisite regulation of gene expression in time and space, which underlies various biological processes. Currently, he is engaged in developing new methods to track single proteins and map 3D genome structure at ultra-high resolution, and integrating these approaches with traditional methods from genomics, biochemistry, and genome editing.