Prof. Dr. Alex Hall
Prof. Dr. Alex Hall
Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Systems Science
Deputy head of Institute of Integrative Biology
Additional information
Research area
The Pathogen Ecology group studies how microorganisms interact and evolve. Current projects include:
- How personalised is evolution within your microbiome? (with Mathilde Boumasmoud)
- How does MRSA interact with other microbes in the human nasal passage? (with Anaëlle Fait and Laura Brülisauer)
- How do antibiotic resistance genes spread in gastrointestinal microbiomes? (with Ricardo León Sampedro, Manu Tamminen and Adrian Egli)
- How does horizontal gene transfer shape microbial community structure? (with Ayush Pathak)
- What makes a successful plasmid? (with Fabienne Benz)
- Developing visualisations for teaching in evolutionary medicine (with Helena Klein, Julia Chatain, Anouk N'Guyen van Chinh and Anton Bolfing)
You can find publications from the group under the Publications tab, and papers including Alex Hall via Google Scholar here.
Alex Hall is associate professor of Pathogen Ecology in the Institute for Integrative Biology at ETH Zürich since January 2022. Prior to his current position he was assistant professor (2015-2021), junior group leader (SNSF Ambizione fellowship) and postdoctoral researcher (Marie Curie Intra-European fellowship and postdoc with Martin Ackermann and Sebastian Bonhoeffer) at ETH Zürich. Before moving to Switzerland, he carried out postdoctoral work at the University of Oxford and did his PhD at the University of Edinburgh. His other activities include membership of the evaluation panel for SNSF PRIMA fellowships and the ETH Zürich Coordination Council Medicine.
Course Catalogue
Spring Semester 2025
| Number | Unit |
|---|---|
| 701-1401-00L | Zürich Ecology and Evolution Interaction Seminar |
| 701-1427-00L | Experimental Evolution |
| 701-1461-00L | Ecology and Evolution: Seminar |