| ORCID | 0000-0003-0603-1097 |
| Google Scholar | Google Scholar |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Positions: | |
| Since 2015 | Full Professor in Pharmacology (tenured), Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 2009 – 2015 | Associate Professor in Pharmacology (tenured), Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 2006 – 2009 | Swiss National Science Foundation Professor (SNSF Professor) and Assistant Professor in Physiology, Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP) and Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2004 – 2006 | Instructor (non-tenure track faculty member), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA |
| 2002 – 2004 | Postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Bruce M. Spiegelman, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA |
| 2001 – 2002 | Postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Urs A. Meyer, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 1997 – 2001 | PhD in Biochemistry, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 1996 | Research fellow with Prof. Christoph Beglinger, Department of Research, University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland |
| Education: | |
| 1997 – 2001 | PhD Thesis “A regulatory network of nuclear receptors for hepatic cytochrome P450 induction by drugs: Interactions between the xenobiotic-, the cholesterol- and the bile acid-sensors CXR, LXR and FXR in chicken liver” in the group of Prof. Urs A. Meyer, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 1995 – 1996 | Diploma/MSc Thesis “Interactions of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH), melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) and melatonin in B16F1 mouse melanoma cells” in the group of Prof. Alex N. Eberle, Department of Research, University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland |
| 1992 – 1996 | MSc in Biology II (molecular biology) at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 1992 | Voluntary training in the Preclinical Neurobiology Research, Pharma Division, Ciba Geigy (now: Novartis), Basel, Switzerland |
| 1988 – 1991 | Gymnasium Liestal, Switzerland |
| 1984 – 1988 | Progymnasium Gelterkinden, Switzerland |
| 1979 – 1984 | Primarschule Gelterkinden, Switzerland |
| Selected Awards & Honors: |
| 2013 | European Research Council (ERC), Consolidator Grant |
| 2008 | Award (“Wissenschaftspreis”) of the Walter and Gertrud Siegenthaler-Stiftung 2008 |
| 2007 | Venia legendi (“Habilitation”) in integrative physiology, in particular muscle physiology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2006 | SNSF Professorship (“SNF Förderungsprofessur”) for the project “Molecular mechanisms regulating skeletal muscle plasticity” by the Swiss National Science Foundation |
| 2004 | Scientist Career Development Award, Muscular Dystrophy Association USA (MDA) |
| 2002 | Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) |
| 2001 | PhD Thesis at the University of Basel honored with “summa cum laude” |
| Selected Memberships: |
| 2016 | American Physiological Society (APS) |
| 2016 | European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) |
| 2007 – 2008 | Member of the Board of the Naturforschende Gesellschaft Zürich (founded 1746) |
