Two appointments at the School of Life Sciences
Raphael Gottardo and Markus Jeschek © 2024 EPFL
The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of professors at EPFL. Among them, are Professors Markus Jeschek and Raphael Gottardo at the School of Life Sciences.
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Professor Markus Jeschek, currently Professor at the University of Regensburg, Germany, as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering in the School of Basic Sciences (SB) and the School of Life Sciences (SV).
Markus Jeschek’s research programme, for which he received an ERC Starting Grant in 2023, focuses on synthetic microbiology, particularly protein and enzyme engineering, the design of genetic circuits and investigating the microbiome. This work is at the forefront of data-based approaches to synthetic biology, the aim of which is to enable high-throughput analyses of biological systems. His appointment facilitates numerous cooperation opportunities both within EPFL and also with the Swiss universities and hospitals.
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Professor Raphael Gottardo, currently Professor at the University of Lausanne and Director of the Biomedical Data Science Center at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), as Adjunct Professor in the School of Life Sciences (SV)
Raphael Gottardo is a pioneer in the field of statistical methods and open source software for the analysis and integration of high-throughput genomic data. His work is being applied throughout the world in immunology, vaccine research, immunotherapy and infection biology, and will enrich research and teaching at EPFL.