Bio Anna Heintz-Buschart
Anna Heintz-Buschart is an assistant professor in Microbial Metagenomics at the Faculty of Science, the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS) of the University of Amsterdam.
She received her PhD in 2011 for molecular microbiology work on an opportunistically pathogenic fungal member of the human microbiome. In her postdoctorial studies at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine on multi-omics analysis of the gut and oral microbiome of infants and in non-communicable diseases, such as type 1 diabetes and Parkinson’s disease.
From 2017 she ran the metagenomics support unit of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and was engaged in interdisciplinary research projects, including on the link between biodiversity and human health. Since joining UvA in 2021, she teaches bioinformatics, numerical ecology methods, and general data literacy and performs research on connecting bioinformatic and statistical approaches for the integration of omics data from microbiomes and their hosts.
