Ernst Hafen#
| Membership Number: | 1892 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1999 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.imsb.ethz.ch/research/hafen.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2006 Full Professor for Dev. Genetics, Institute for Molecular Systems Biology (IMSB), ETH Zurich
- 2005 - 2006 Director of the ETH Zurich
- 2005 - 2005 Director of the Zoological Institute
- 1997 - 2005 Full Professor for Dev. Genetics, University of Zurich
- 1987 - 1992 Assistant Professor and Associate Professor for Dev. Genetics, University of Zurich
- 1984 - 1986 Postdoctoral Research Assistant with G.M. Rubin, Dept. of Biochemistry, U.C. Berkeley
- 1983 Research Assistant with W.J. Gehring, Biocenter Basel
Fields of Scholarship
- Genetics
- Signal transduction
- Drosophila
- Insulin signaling
- Nutrition
- Cell size
- Growth
Honours and Awards
- 1991 Friedrich-Miescher Prize
- 1999 Prix Mondiale Nessim-Habif
- Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
- Member of the Academia Europaea
