Prof. Dr. Michal Wieczorek
Prof. Dr. Michal Wieczorek
Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology
Additional information
personal information
October 24, 1987, Athens, Greece
Scientific Interests
Biological self-assembly | cell biology & the cytoskeleton | in vitro reconstitutions | structural biology
positions
since 01/2022
Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich
Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology & Biophysics
08/2015-08/2017
Venture Development Associate
Tandem Launch, Inc., Montreal, QC, Canada
Education and Training
08/2017 - 12/2021
Postdoc with Tarun Kapoor
The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
01/2010 - 08/2015
PhD with Gary Brouhard
Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
09/2005 - 12/2009
BSc in Biophysics
University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Awards
2018 | HFSP Long Term Fellowship | 2018-2021
2018 | Merck Postdoctoral Fellowship
2018 | NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (Declined)
2014 | FQRNT Bourses de Doctorat en Recherche
2012 | ASCB Graduate Travel Award
2011 | NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship at the Doctoral level | 2011-2014
2010 | NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship at the Masters level | 2010-2011
2008 | NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award
Invited Scientific Talks
2022
D-BIOL Research Symposium | ETH Zurich | Davos, Switzerland
2021
Wellcome Center for Cell Biology Seminar Series | University of Edinburgh | virtual
2020
Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series | Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry | virtual
2013
American Society for Cell Biology Minisymposium | San Francisco, CA, USA
Teaching
2014 | Teaching Assistant | Undergraduate practical course | Cell and Molecular Biology Methods
2009 | Teaching Assistant | Undergraduate theory course | Statistical Mechanics
Memberships in Scientific Societies
since 2012 | American Society for Cell Biology