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 Education
• University of Bonn, Germany, MS 1977
(Biological Sciences);
• University of Bonn, Germany, PhD 1979
(Genetics and Molecular Biology)
Summary of research interests
His laboratory is currently working on four major
research projects:
• Proteome analysis and bioinformatics tool development.
• Functional genomics and modeling of plant isoprenoid
biosynthesis.
• Coordination of cell cycle control and
differentiation.
• Biotechnology of cassava, rice and wheat.
Professional experience
• Research Associate, University of Marburg, Marburg,
Germany, 1979-1980
• Research Associate, University of Colorado, Boulder,
1981-1983
• Assistant/Associate Professor, University of
California,
Berkeley, 1984-1990
• Professor of Plant Biology, University of California,
Berkeley, 1990-2000
• Chair, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology,
Univ. of California,
Berkeley, 1993-1998
• Director, PMB–Novartis Collaborative Research Program,
1998-2000
• Professor of Plant Biotechnology, ETH Zurich,
2000-present
• Co-Director, Functional Genomics Center Zurich,
2001-present
• Management Committee, Center for Biosystems Science
and
Engineering, 2004-present
• Chair, Institute of Plant Sciences ETH Zurich,
2004-2005
• Chair, Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, 2004-2006
• President, European Plant Science Organisation,
2006-present
Fellowships / Honors
• Hoerlein Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Bonn,
West-Germany, 1976
• DAAD Fellowship, University of Cape Town, South
Africa, 1977
• University of Bonn, West-Germany, Predoctoral
Fellowship, 1977-1978
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Postdoctoral
Fellowship,
University of Colorado, 1981-1982
• Max-Kade Foundation, New York, Postdoctoral Fellow,
University of
Colorado, Boulder, 1983.
• Chair, Gordon Conference, Italy 1994, California 2007
• UC Berkeley Chancellor's Research Initiative Award,
1996
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of
Sciences, 1998
• Chancellor’s Professorship, UC Berkeley, 1999
• Four awards for the textbook “Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology
of Plants” (2000) - translated into Italian, Chinese and Japanese.
• Anniversary Prize 2003 of the Eiselen Foundation Ulm,
Germany
• Fellow and Corresponding Member, American Society of
Plant
Biologists, 2007
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