Drescher Lab

Biozentrum, University of Basel

07/2021 -	Associate Professor, Biozentrum, University of Basel
10/2015 - 06/2021	Professor of Biophysics, Faculty of Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg
07/2014 - 06/2021	Head of Max Planck Research Group, located at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
02/2011 - 06/2014	Postdoc in molecular microbiology, Princeton University - with Bonnie Bassler, Howard Stone, Ned Wingreen
09/2007 - 02/2011	Ph.D. in biophysics, then postdoc for a few months, DAMTP, University of Cambridge - with Raymond Goldstein
10/2003 - 09/2007	Master of Physics (1st class), University of Oxford
09/2002 - 09/2003	German civil service
07/2002	Abitur (1,0) Altes Gymnasium Bremen, Germany

2023	Consolidator Grant from the SNSF (Swiss ERC backup scheme)
2019	Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize from the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2019	VAAM Research Prize from the German Society for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM)
2019	Young Scientist Prize in Biological Physics from the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)
2016	Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC)
2015	Career Development Award from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)
2014	Blavatnik Postdoctoral Award Finalist of the New York Academy of Sciences
2011	Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) long-term postdoctoral fellowship
2011	St. John's College Research Fellowship, University of Cambridge
2008	Fitzwilliam College Senior Scholarship, University of Cambridge
2007	Gibbs Prize, University of Oxford (for 2nd best physics degree in the year at Oxford)
2007	Rolls-Royce Prize, University of Oxford (for MPhys project)
2007	EPSRC Doctoral Training Award (full scholarship for Ph.D. at Cambridge)
2007	Cambridge European Trust Honorary Scholarship, University of Cambridge
2004	St. Anne's College Scholarship, University of Oxford
2002	Karl-Nix-Preis (for Abitur in Bremen, Germany)