Matthias Peter#
| Membership Number: | 4353 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.bc.biol.ethz.ch/research/peter.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 4/2016 Member of the Swiss National Research Council
- 4/2014 - present Vice Chair EM- and Lightmicroscopy platform ScopeM
- 2003 - present Member of the selection committee of the Swiss National Research Foundation (SNF) for SNF Förderprofessorships
- 2/2011 - 9/2015 Chair of the Department of Biology/ETH Zurich
- 2008 - 2011 Vice Chair of the Institute of Biochemistry/ETH Zurich
- 1/2008 - 1/2011 and 1/2003 - 12/2004 Chair of the Institute of Biochemistry/ETH Zurich
- 2004 - 2012 Member of the Swiss Council of Technology and Innovation (SWTR)
- 10/2002 - present Professor for Biochemistry/ETH Zurich
- 1996 - 2002 Assistant/Associate Professor at the Swiss Institute for Exp. Cancer Research (ISREC), Epalinges s/Lausanne
- 1991 - 1996 Post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Ira Herskowitz/UCSF, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Cell division
- Cell growth
- Cell polarity
- Mitosis
- DNA replication and repair
- Metabolism
- Ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS)
- Cullin-RING-H2 E3 ubiquitin ligases (CRL)
- Autophagy
- MAP-kinase signaling
Honours and Awards
- 2011 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2006 MIT lecture
- 2002 UBS prize for Excellence in Research
- 2001 EMBO member
- 2001 Promotion to ISREC Senior Scientist/Associate Professor
- 1997 Helmut Horten Incentive award
- 1996 Career development award START
