Sommer studied biology at the RWTH Aachen University, at the University of Tübingen and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich where he obtained his Diplom degree in 1989 and earned his Ph.D. in the lab of Diethard Tautz on a study of the evolution of segmentation genes in insects in 1992.
Elke Sommer | Ralf Jaros | Tim Sommer | Raymond Sommer | Ralf Little | Ralf Souquet | Ralf Schumann | Ralf König | Robert Sommer | Alfred Sommer (ophthalmologist) | Roger Sommer | Ralf van Bühren | Ralf Rocchigiani | Ralf Reski | Ralf Rangnick | Ralf Pedersen | Ralf Kleinmann | Ralf Husmann | Ralf Hotchkiss | Ralf Hogge | Ralf Gothóni | Ralf Fücks | Ralf Dahrendorf | Patricio Rey Sommer | Angela Sommer-Bodenburg | Andreas Urs Sommer |