People
Positions
Since 08/2025
Assistant Professor
Institute of Medical Microbiology
University of Zürich
11/2020 – 07/2025
Sub-group Leader
Pilhofer Lab
Institute of Molecular Biology & Biophysics
ETH Zürich
Education and Training
2015–2020
PhD with Martin Pilhofer
Institute of Molecular Biology & Biophysics, ETH Zürich
2013–2015
MSc in Biological Chemistry
University of Vienna, Austria
2015
Research assistant in Tom Marlovits’ lab
IMP/IMBA, Vienna, Austria
2012/2013
Research assistant in Grant Jensen’s lab
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena-CA, USA
2009–2013
BSc in Chemistry
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Awards and Fellowships
2025 Starting Grant | SNSF
2022 Lopez-Loreta Price | Fondation Lopez-Loreta
2021 International Birnstiel Award | IMP Vienna, Max Birnstiel Foundation
2021 Prix Schläfli in Biology | Swiss Academy of Sciences
2021 ETH medal for outstanding PhD thesis | ETH Zürich
2020 Best talk & Young Scientist Award | 11th Workshop on Biology of Cyanobacteria | Porto, Portugal
2018 ISPP award, best young scientist contribution | 16th Symposium on Phototrophic Organisms | Vancouver, BC, Canada
2016 Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship 2016-2019
2012 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship | Caltech, Pasadena-CA, USA
Funding
2026 – 2029 Young Investigator Grant Helmut Horten Foundation
2025 – 2030 SNSF Starting Grant
2023 – 2028 Fondation Jean-Jacques et Felicia Lopez-Loreta pour l’Excellence Academique
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2023 ETH Scientific Equipment Program
2022 – 2025 Personalized Health and Related Technologies
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2022 ETH Career Seed Grant
