Oster earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He then worked as post-doc at the Max Planck Institute in Hannover, Germany, and the University of Oxford, UK, before joining the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany as a junior group leader. In 2011 he moved to Luebeck where, in 2017, he was appointed as the director of the Institute of Neurobiology and Endowed Lichtenberg Chair of Neurobiology. His research focuses on the role of circadian clocks in the regulation of physiology and behavior. He is spokesperson of the Adipocyte-Brain Crosstalk Research Training Group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).Oster’s research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Cell Metabolism, and Nature Neuroscience.
