Felix Naef - Curriculum Vitae#

Education

• 1996 - 06/2000 PhD thesis in theoretical physics at the EPFL, Lausanne - Title: Dynamical properties of quasi 1-D correlated electrons, Advisors: Dr X. Zotos and Prof. A. Baldereschi
  
• 1990 - 1995 Diploma in physics at the ETHZ, Zürich

Employment

• 06/2012 - Associate Professor (tenured), Institute of Bioengineering (IBI) School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
  
• 10/2005 - Tenure Track Assistant Professor, The Institute of Bioengineering (IBI), School of Life Sciences, EPFL
  
• 01/2004 - 10/2005 Junior group leader at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC)
  
• 01/2004 - 12/2019 Group leader at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)

Institutional responsibilities

• 09/2019 - Section Director and Vice-Dean for Education, Faculty of Life Sciences, EPFL
  
• 01/2016 - 12/2019 Member of the EPFL Research Commission
  
• 05/2015 - Member of the School Direction, Faculty of Life Sciences (SV), EPFL
  

Supervised PhD theses [13 as Director and 6 as co-Director]

Colas Droin (2020), Jake Yeung (2018), Cédric Gobet (2018), Onur Tidin (2018), Damien Nicolas (2017), Jérôme Mermet (2017), Jonathan Sobel (2016), Rosamaria Cannavo (2016), Johannes Becker (2015), Benjamin Zoller (2014), Jonathan Bieler (2014), Julia Cajan (2014), Laura Symul (2013), Simon Blanchoud (2013), Nicolas Dénervaud (2013), Thomas d’Eysmond (2011), Guillaume Rey (2011), Mirko Bischofberger (2011), Fabio Parisi (2008).

Prizes, awards, fellowships

• 07/2020 EMBO member, elected as European Molecular Biology Organization member
  
• 03/2012 2012 Leenaards Scientific award
  
• 10/2010 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, LS2 panel
  
• 12/2007 Best performing award in “Network inference from qPCR data” at DREAM 2 conference, New York, 2007, with F. Parisi and H. Koeppl
  
• 11/2006 ARTS - Apple Research & Technology Support program award for “Simulating Gene Networks and their Evolution”