Prof. Cyril Zipfel
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of Zürich
Zollikerstrasse 107
CH-8008 Zürich
cyril.zipfel@botinst.uzh.ch

phone:
+41 (0)44 63 48222
fax:
+41 (0)44 63 48204
Education
Fellowships and Awards

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Education

2018 - present Professor of Molecular & Cellular Plant Physiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
2014 - present Professor, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
2014 - 2018 Head of The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK.
2011 - present Senior Group Leader, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK.
2007 - 2011 Group Leader, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK.
2005 - 2007 EMBO long-term postdoctoral fellow, Laboratory of Prof. Jonathan Jones, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK.
2001 - 2005 PhD, University of Basel, Summa cum laude. Laboratory of Prof. Thomas Boller, Friedrich-Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research and Botanical Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland.
2001 DEA (MSc) in Plant Cellular and Molecular Physiology. University of Paris XI, France. With honours.

Fellowships and Awards

2019 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher.
2018 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher.
2018 Elected EMBO Member.
2018 4th Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award from Nagoya University.
2017 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Researcher Grant.
2017 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher.
2016 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher.
2015 Charles Albert Shull Award from the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB).
2015 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher.
2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher.
2012 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Independent Researcher Grant.
2006 Fakultatspreis (best PhD thesis of the year), Faculty of Sciences, University of Basel.
2006 Ed Fischer Prize (best PhD thesis of the year), Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel.
2005 - 2007 EMBO long-term post-doctoral fellowship.