Prof. Robbie Loewith

2021 -           Academic Director Dubochet Center for Imaging CryoGEnic Geneva (https://cryoem.unige.ch/)

                     University of Geneva, Switzerland

2015 -           Full Professor

                     Faculty of Science, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Geneva of University, Switzerland

2019 – 2022 Deputy, then Director National Centers of Competence in Research:  Chemical Biology

                     University of Geneva / École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

2017 - 2020  Director, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva

2011 - 2015  Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva

                     Faculty of Science, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva

2006 - 2010  Swiss National Science Foundation Professor (~Assistant Professor)

                     Faculty of Science, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva

2005 - 2006  Maître d’Enseignement et de Recherche

                     Faculty of Science, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva

2000 - 2005  Postdoctoral Fellow with Michael N. Hall, University of Basel, Switzerland

2000           PhD, Cumming School of Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of        Calgary, Canada

                     Professor Dallan B. Young

1994             BSc, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Biochemistry, University of Guelph, Canada

2021         Elected EMBO Member

2019         ERC Advanced Grant 

2014         ERC Consolidator Grant

2009         Nominated to the National Centers of Competence in Research:  Frontiers in Genetics

2008         ERC Starting Grant 

2007            Prix Leenaards pour la promotion de la recherche scientifique

                     400 000.- CHF avec Profs C. De Virgilio et A. Mayer

2003            Roche Symposium for Leading Bioscientists of the Next Decade

2001-03        EMBO long-term post-doctoral fellowship

1999            Gordon H. Dixon Award - University of Calgary

                     (Awarded to top graduate, Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)

1996-00        University of Calgary Silver Anniversary Scholarship

1994-99        Alberta Heritage Fellowship for Medical Research

1994-98        National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada,

                     Post-graduate Scholarship

1994            Beckman Prize - University of Guelph

                     (Awarded to top graduate, Dept. Molecular Biology and Genetics)

1990-94        Canada Scholarship

Invited conference presentations (upcoming / last 10 years):

Sept. 2026 VI International Symposium on Fungal Stress, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil

June 2026 European South Atlantic Biophysics Congress (ESAB) (Plenary Speaker) Montpelier

Nov. 2025 Size control and density regulation in living cells – mechanisms and physiological impact of crowding homeostasis, Fondation des Treilles in Tourtour, France

Oct.          2025 SEFAGIA (Keynote lecture) Miraflores de la Sierra, Spain

Aug. 2025 SSM ANNUAL CONGRESS 2025 Interlaken

July  2025 32nd edition of the International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology (ICYGMB) (Plenary Speaker) Sorbonne Paris, France

June 2025 Keynote speaker at the Institute of Biochemistry (ETH Zurich) retreat, Kandersteg, CH

June 2025 Swiss Network for Interdisciplinary Education in Chemical Biology retreat, Champèry, CH

Oct.          2024 CIFAR Fungal Kingdom meeting and Antifungal Summit, Geneva, CH

May 2024 Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Organization, Muenster Germany

Feb.          2024 4th International Symposium on Microbial Lipids (Keynote lecture), Graz Austria

Oct.          2023 Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Yeast and Life Sciences, Matsue, Japan

Oct.          2023 TOR de France (Keynote lecture), Nice, France

Sept. 2023 Advances in Biomedical Research V, Split Croatia

Oct.          2021 EMBO Members meeting

Sept. 2019 EMBO Workshop:  The physics and chemistry of endocytosis at multiple scales Ischia Italy

June 2019 Yeasterday 2019 (Keynote lecture) Groningen NL

June 2019 Nutrient Sensing and the Metabolic Control of Cell Growth, Fondation Les Treilles, Tourtour, France

May 2018 Target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling in photosynthetic organisms (Keynote lecture), Bischoffsheim, France

Sept. 2017 Endocytic trafficking and signaling in health and disease Serock, Poland

Nov. 2016 The Molecular Biology Society of Japan Annual Meeting, Yokohama, Japan

July  2016 Proteins and Peptides: Structure, Function and Biotechnology, University of Geneva, CH

May 2016 Annual Faculty of Medicine Graduate Students’ Symposium, University of Calgary, Canada

Nov. 2015 PI3K-like Protein Kinases meeting, Milano Italy

July  2015 GRC Molecular Membrane Biology, Andover NH 

Euresearch | Swiss guide to European research and innovation:  ERC Interview Training

Swiss Youth in Science study week (host high school students in lab, yearly)

2015       Panel member ANR France

2017-2024     Panel member ERC StG (LS1)

2018-2025     Panel member Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Postdoc.Mobility

2021               Panel member Vienna Science and Technology Fund Chemical Biology Call

2006-2014     Chairman, University of Geneva International PhD program in Basic and Applied Molecular Life Sciences

Peer reviewer for ERC, SNSF plus >10 other funding agencies

Peer reviewer for >30 journals

External reviewer for tenure decisions at University of Arizona, Yale University, University of Groningen, Graz University of Technology

Member of 12 hiring/promotion commissions at University of Geneva in last 10 years

Teach at the BSc, MSc and PhD levels ~40 student contact hours per year

Created MOOC/SPOC in chemical biology in 2020 https://www.coursera.org/instructor/loewith