| ORCID | 0000-0001-7645-5325 |
| Google Scholar | Google Scholar |
| Nationality: | Swiss/US |
| Positions: | |
| Since 2018 | Director of the Biozentrum, University of Basel |
| 2014 – 2017 | Chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University |
| 2013 – 2018 | Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University |
| 2005 – 2019 | Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University |
| 1999 – 2005 | Associate Professor, Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute and Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine |
| 1996 – 1999 | Assistant Professor, Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute and Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine |
| 1992 – 1996 | Postdoctoral research at the laboratory of Wolfgang Driever, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University |
| Education: | |
| 1988 – 1992 | Doctoral research at the laboratory of Walter J. Gehring, Biozentrum, University of Basel |
| 1986 – 1987 | Undergraduate research at the laboratory of Walter J. Gehring, Biozentrum, University of Basel |
| Selected Awards & Honors: |
| 2020 – 2024 | ERC Advanced Grant |
| 2018 | Featured in Science “Breakthrough of the Year 2018” |
| 2018 | Elected member of EMBO |
| 2017 – 2019 | NIH Pioneer Award |
| 2016 – 2019 | NIH MERIT Award |
| 2014 | Everett Mendelsohn Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring |
| 2006 | Harland Winfield Mossman Developmental Biologists Award of the American Asc. of Anatomists |
| 2001 – 2005 | Irma T. Hirschl Scholar |
| 1999 – 2002 | McKnight Scholar for Neuroscience |
| Selected Memberships: |
| 2019 – 2022 | HHMI Scientific Review Board |
| since 2017 | Site Director of the Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage |
| since 2015 | Member of the Editorial Board of the Annual Reviews of Cell and Developmental Biology |
| since 2014 | SAB of the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College |
| since 2013 | Member of the Board of Reviewing Editors Science |
| 2007 – 2011 | Member and Chair of the DEV-2 study section |
| since 2005 | Member of the Editorial Advisory Board Developmental Cell |
| since 1999 | Member of the Editorial Advisory Board Development |
