| ORCID | 0000-0001-7645-5325 | |
| Google Scholar | Google Scholar | |
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| Nationality: | Swiss/US |
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| Positions: | | |
| Director of the Biozentrum, University of Basel | Since 2018 | |
| Visiting Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University | Since 2019 | |
| 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 | |
| Member, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Broad Institute, Center for Brain Science, Center for Systems Biology | 2006-2019 | |
| 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 | 2026-2031 | |
| Election to American Association for the Advancement of Science | 2022 | |
| Election to Academia Europaea | 2020 | |
| Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher | 2020-2025 | |
| Election to US National Academy of Sciences | 2020 | |
| George Streisinger Award of the International Zebrafish Society | 2020 | |
| 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: | | |
| SAB, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at Broad Institute | 2026 | |
| Co-organizer, CSHL meeting Zebrafish Neurobiology | 2025 | |
| SAB, VIB Center for Brain & Disease Research | 2025 | |
| SAB, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | 2025-present | |
| Brain Prize Selection Committee | 2025-present | |
| Committee for Wissenschaftspreis der Stadt Basel | 2025-2029 | |
| SAB, MPI für Immunbiologie und Epigenetik | 2025-2029 | |
| EMBL Scientific Advisory Committee | 2025-2027 | |
| Advisory Board Paul Scherrer Institute | 2024-present | |
| SAB Novartis DARE | 2024-present | |
| SAB (chair), Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, Seattle | 2024-present | |
| Scientific Committee of the Louis-Jeantet Foundation | 2024-2029 | |
| SAB, MPI Biological Intelligence | 2023-present | |
| SAB, Mechanisms in Integrated Life Sciences. Université Claude Bernard, Lyon | 2023-present | |
| SNSF Steering Committee ERC Transitional Measures | 2021-2024 | |
| SAB, FMI, Basel | 2019-present | |
| Advisory Council, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton | 2019-present | |
| SAB, CIBSS, Uni Freiburg | 2019-present | |
| HHMI Scientific Review Board | 2019 – 2022 | |
| Co-organizer, Society of Developmental Biology Meeting, Boston | 2019 | |
| 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 | |
![[Translate to Deutsch:] Using a newly developed AI model, the research group led by Prof. Alex Schier at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, has now discovered in zebrafish that certain sections of messenger RNA control the extent of protein synthesis during early embryonic development.](/fileadmin/_processed_/3/c/csm_2025_Schier_Dev_Cell_zebrafish_c9142661a9.jpg)