Interview to Bernhard Payer (CRG)

“In academic research you do what excites you, not what you’re told”

Bernhard Payer (Wolfsberg, Austria, 1975) came to the PRBB in 2014 to set up his own lab at the CRG, after doing a PhD in Cambridge (UK) and a postdoc at Harvard. Working on X-chromosome reactivation, he says everything he does revolves around the X: eXperimenting, eXploring, and eXercising. And Barcelona is the perfect place for it all: he is successfully running his lab and enjoys his main hobby, cycling, in what he says is “the best cycling area I’ve ever seen.”