PERSONAL INFORMATION Family name, First name: Teperino, Raffaele, PhD Researcher unique identifier(s): ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8815-1409 Date of birth: 07.11.1981 Nationality: Italian Family status: Married (2 kids – 18 and 6 months) URL for web site: Environmental Epigenetics Group • EDUCATION 2009 PhD, University of Naples “Federico II” - Italy (supervisor: Prof. Francesco Beguinot) Title: “Genetic and Epigenetic alterations in type 2 diabetes: the role of PED/PEA-15 gene” (Ungaro P., Teperino R. et al. Diabetologia 2010) 2005 MSc., University of Naples “Federico II” - Italy (supervisor: Prof. Francesco Beguinot) Title: “Genetic alterations in type 2 diabetes: regulation of PED/PEA-15 gene expression” (Ungaro P., Teperino R. et al. Diabetologia 2008) • CURRENT POSITION(S) 2015 – Independent Group Leader “Environmental Epigenetics” Institute of Experimental Genetics (IEG) - Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen (HMGU) and German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) (Gerlini R. et al. Mol. Metab. 2018, Darr J. et al. BiorXiv & Cell Reports 2020) • PREVIOUS POSITIONS 2010-2015 PostDoc – MPI for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg (Andrew Pospisilik) Focus: Developmental and epigenetic control of adult metabolic homeostasis (Teperino R. et al. Cell 2012) 2009-2010 PostDoc – Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne (Prof. J. Auwerx) Focus: Epigenetics and Metabolism (Teperino R. et al. Cell Metab. 2010) • FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2016 – 2018 Helmholtz ERC Recognition Award 2015 – 2017 Minerva Stiftung Award for Research Cooperation and High Excellence in Science (ARCHES). 2012 – 2014 Marie-Curie Intra European Exchange Fellowship (IEF) 2010 – 2012 Co-funded Fellowship from the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC) and Marie-Curie Action 2009 – 2010 Nestlè Postdoctoral Fellowship 2006 EUGENE2 Young Investigator Award • SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS 2015 – 2015 Supervised 1 PostDoc, 3 PhD Students, 2 M.Sc. students, 1 Technician and trained 5 trainees to support the training program for Technician existing at the Helmholtz Research Center in Munich • ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 2018 Scientific organisation of the INFRAFRONTIER Epigenetic Workshop in Munich, which aimed at bringing together world-renowned epigeneticists (eg. Robert Feil, Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla) and IMPC scientists. • INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES Since 2015 Member of 6 PhD thesis committees at the Helmholtz Munich, LMU Munich and European Institute of Oncology (Milano – Italy) Since 2017 Member of the Epigenetics@HMGU (Epigenetics@HMGU) management board. • REVIEWING ACTIVITIES (if applicable) Since 2015 Reviewer for Nature Communications, Cell Reports, Cell Metabolism, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Diabetes, Diabetologia, Clinical Epigenetics, Molecular Metabolism • MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 2010 – Active member of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) 2015 – Active member of the EpiGeneSys Network of Excellence (EpiGeneSys) • MAJOR COLLABORATIONS M. Witting, Mass Spectometry, HMGU – Germany H. Grallert, Human GWAS Studies, HMGU – Germany ME Torres-Padilla, Epigenetic Inheritance, HMGU – Germany A. Körner, Epigenetic inheritance in humans, University of Leipzig – Germany E. Schleicher & H. Häring, Metabolic control in humans, University of Tübingen - Germany M. Buschbeck, Epigenetic and metabolism, Josep-Carrera Institute, Badalona – Spain O. Koren, Gut microbiota and epigenetic inheritance, Bar-Ilan University – Israel N. Kotaja, Spermatogenesis and epigenetic inheritance, University of Turku – Finland R. Sedlacek, Mouse model generation, CCP Prague – Czech Republic S. Robertson, Seminal fluid and developmental programing, University of Adelaide – Australia