Education
Martin Spiess studied and graduated with a doctorate in biochemistry at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich.
biochemist university professor
Martin Spiess studied and graduated with a doctorate in biochemistry at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich.
In 1983 he began research as a postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, United States of America, returning in 1985 to the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich. In 1986 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, where he has taught and continued to conduct research, since 1993 as Associate Professor, since 2004 as Professor of Biochemistry and where he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Science from 2010-2012. 1989 Federation of European Biochemical Societies Anniversary Prize of the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM).
1997 Elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (European Molecular Biology Organization).