Dr. Joachim Lingner is full professor for life sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He obtained his PhD at the Biocenter of the University of Basel with Dr. Walter Keller. As a postdoc, he worked in the laboratory of Dr. Thomas Cech at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Lingner obtained the Friedrich Miescher Prize (2002), is elected EMBO member (2005) and ERC advanced investigator awardee (2008). He has been on the advisory editorial boards of EMBO J., EMBO Rep. and Nucleic Acids Res, SAB member Center of Integrative Genomics (CIG) of the University of Lausanne, and ERC starting grant review panel member. 

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