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!!!Melanie Blokesch
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__Present and Previous Positions__
* 2022 - present Director, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
* 2021 - present Full Professor, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland
* 2016 - 2021 Associate Professor (tenured), Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland
* 2009 - 2016 Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland
* 2005 - 2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine &amp; Department of Microbiology &amp; Immunology, Stanford University, CA, USA
* 2000 - 2004 PhD student in Biology; Department Biology I, Microbiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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__Honours and Awards__
* 2022 Elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM)
* 2021 Elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
* 2019 Elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
* 2018 Elected member of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM)
* 2017 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Research Scholarship 
* 2016 ERC Consolidator Grant awarded by the European Research Council 
* 2015 Research Award, Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM), Germany
* 2015 EPFL teaching award “Polysphère” by the student association for best teacher in the School of Life Sciences
* 2012 ERC Starting Grant awarded by the European Research Council
* 2012 Teaching award by the School of Life Sciences, EPFL
* 2005 Leopoldina Prize for Junior Scientists, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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[Curriculum Vitae |User/Blokesch_Melanie/CV]
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[Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Blokesch_Melanie/Highlight]
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[Other information|User/Blokesch_Melanie/OtherInformation]
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