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Department of Molecular Life Sciences
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zurich
Switzerland
Building / Room: Y55-L-34a
Phone: +41 44 635 16 34
Silvia studied biochemistry at the Technical University of Munich, with research stays at Harvard Medical School in Boston and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. During her PhD at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, she investigated the role of DNA methylation in gene regulation. In her postdoc at the University of Washington in Seattle, she developed and applied new methods to study cell type-specific gene regulation at scale and single cell resolution. As computational team lead at a San Francisco biotech start-up, she leveraged single cell genomics and in vivo multiplexed perturbation methods for target discovery in complex diseases. In October 2024, Silvia started her lab as an Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich.
Silvia's love for exploring the unknown goes beyond the cellular landscape: she's also a passionate ski mountaineer, alpine climber and wilderness adventurer.
| Since 2024 | Assistant Professor, University of Zurich |
| 2022 - 2024 |
Associate Director and Head of Human Genomics, Gordian |
| 2022 - 2024 | Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle |
| 2018 - 2022 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle |
| 2013 - 2017 | PhD at Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research and University of Basel |
| 2007 - 2012 | Bachelor and Masters Studies at the Technical University of Munich, with research stays at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Harvard Medical School in Boston and Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center in New York |
SNSF Starting Grant, HFSP Long-Term Fellowship, EMBO Long-Term Fellowship, SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility fellowship (gratefully declined), PhD fellowship of the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, Study Abroad Grants of the Dr. Karl Wamsler Stiftung, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Max Weber Programm
Ed Fisher Prize, Prize for Best PhD Thesis in Philosophy and Natural Sciences (University of Basel), Jürgen Manchot Prize
