| Nationality: | Swiss/US |
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| Positions: | | |
| Director of the Biozentrum, University of Basel | Since 2018 | |
| Chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University | 2014 – 2017 | |
| Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University | 2013 – 2018 | |
| Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University | 2005 – 2019 | |
| Associate Professor, Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute and Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine | 1999 – 2005 | |
| Assistant Professor, Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute and Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine | 1996 – 1999 | |
| Postdoctoral research at the laboratory of Wolfgang Driever, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University | 1992 – 1996 | |
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| Education: | | |
| Doctoral research at the laboratory of Walter J. Gehring, Biozentrum, University of Basel | 1988 – 1992 | |
| Undergraduate research at the laboratory of Walter J. Gehring, Biozentrum, University of Basel | 1986 – 1987 | |
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| Selected Awards & Honors: | | |
| ERC Advanced Grant | 2020 – 2024 | |
| Featured in Science “Breakthrough of the Year 2018” | 2018 | |
| Elected member of EMBO | 2018 | |
| NIH Pioneer Award | 2017 – 2019 | |
| NIH MERIT Award | 2016 – 2019 | |
| Everett Mendelsohn Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring | 2014 | |
| Harland Winfield Mossman Developmental Biologists Award of the American Asc. of Anatomists | 2006 | |
| Irma T. Hirschl Scholar | 2001 – 2005 | |
| McKnight Scholar for Neuroscience | 1999 – 2002 | |
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| Selected Memberships: | | |
| HHMI Scientific Review Board | 2019 – 2022 | |
| Site Director of the Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage | since 2017 | |
| Member of the Editorial Board of the Annual Reviews of Cell and Developmental Biology | since 2015 | |
| SAB of the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College | since 2014 | |
| Member of the Board of Reviewing Editors Science | since 2013 | |
| Member and Chair of the DEV-2 study section | 2007 – 2011 | |
| Member of the Editorial Advisory Board Developmental Cell | since 2005 | |
| Member of the Editorial Advisory Board Development | since 1999 | |
