Claudia Bagni - Biography#

Prof. Claudia Bagni has worked in top laboratories such as that of Fotis Kafathos at Harward an EMBL and Carlos Dotti at EMBL. She was Group leader at VIB (Flemish Institute for Biotechnology) and Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of University of Leuven, BE.

She is now Full Professor and Director of the Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne and Vice-Dean for Research and Innovation, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH. She has won several prestigious prizes and she is EMBO member and Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. She is member of several committees and reviewer of several prestigious journals and grants. She is or has been in the editorial board of several top journals such as EMBO Reports amd Frontiers in neurosciences. She is the organizer of EMBO and other International meetings. She has been the mentor of many junior scientists who are now well recognized in their fields. She is co-author of 128 publications, many of which in high impact journals, and she has filed three patents. Her work at the cross-point between biochemistry and neuroscience is highly recognised.