Markus Affolter is a Swiss Developmental Biologist and Professor at the Biozentrum University of Basel, Switzerland.
Education
Markus Affolter studied Biology at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich and at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada. Following his Doctor of Philosophy from Laval University in 1988, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Biozentrum, University of Basel.
Career
In the laboratory of Professor Walter Gehring, Markus Affolter began his research with the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In 2000 he became Assistant Professor and in 2005 Professor of Developmental Biology at the Biozentrum, University of Basel. 1983: K.M.
Membership
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]
1999: Elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (European Molecular Biology Organization)
2008: Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.