Selected Awards

Selected Awards:

• ETH medal for PhD thesis (1987)


• SGM-Förderpreis (Swiss Society of Microbiology Award: 1992)


• Offer of Chair (Genetics) at LMU München (declined: 2002)


• Elected Fellow American Academy of Microbiology (2009)


• Elected Member Akademie der Wissenschaften Göttingen (2009)


• Offer of the Chair of Biological Sciences Singapore (2016)