Ariel Lindner is co-founder of the CRI/Learning Planet Institute, Director of “Engaged Life Science (ELiS)” and mentor to research team leaders.
He is Director of Interdisciplinary Research in Life Sciences and heads the Evolution and Engineering of Dynamic Systems (SEED) unit at Inserm and the Université Paris Cité.
He also develops action research initiatives aimed at designing tools, methods and training programmes to better identify, understand and support children based on their individual strengths and needs.
Education
Ariel Lindner graduated from the interdisciplinary “Amirim” programme at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (major in Chemistry).
He obtained both his MSc and PhD in Chemical and Molecular Immunology from the Weizmann Institute of Science (research topics: enzyme models, antibody conformational changes and directed evolution).
Research
Following research stays at the Scripps Institute (California) and the MRC (Cambridge), Ariel Lindner was awarded EMBO and Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowships to join Miro Radman’s laboratory in Paris.
His work on variability among clonal individuals led him to explore ageing processes. He uses bacteria as model systems to discover new antibiotics, advance synthetic and systems biology, and study the origins of cooperation among individuals.
His current research focuses on two main areas: Systems and synthetic biology, and Open and citizen science to address the Sustainable Development Goals and learning disorders.
Teaching
Building on an innovative, research-based adaptive learning model — Learning Through Research — Ariel Lindner co-created the CRI–Learning Planet Institute Master’s and Doctoral programmes, where he has been teaching for over 20 years.
Collaborations
- Participation in and coordination of European citizen science projects Citizen CyberLab, Do It Together Science (DIToS), Crowd4SDG
- Contributor to the AXA Research Fund Chair on Longevity
- Supervisor of the iGEM Paris Bettencourt
- Member of the iGEM Foundation Board of Directors
- Coordinator of the BioConvergence for Health (Major Interest Domain project of the Région Ile-de-France)
- Member of the INSERM's specialized scientific committee (CSS1)
- Organiser of numerous interdisciplinary research and education workshops worldwide
Publications
- Training the Next Generation of European Interdisciplinary Scientists (with François Taddei, 2007)
- Ten simple rules for open human health research (2020)
- Contours of citizen science: a vignette study (2021)
Ariel Lindner has also published in leading journals including Nature, Science, Cell, PLoS and PNAS, and serves as an occasional reviewer for these publications.
His publications have been supported by competitive grants (ANR, HFSP, EU, Axa foundation and MSDAVENIR, French Embassy in Ghana).
Learning, Integration, Support and Awareness (LISA)