Yolanda Schaerli

Associate professor

2023 - present

Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Assistant professor (tenure-track)

2017 - 2022

Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

2018: Birth of son

Junior group leader, SNSF Ambizione fellow

2014 - 2016

Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Host: Prof. Andreas Wagner

2015: Birth of daughter

Post-doctoral researcher

2010 - 2014

EMBL/CRG Systems Biology Research Unit, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain
Advisors: Prof. Mark Isalan and Prof. James Sharpe
Project: Synthetic stripe-forming gene regulatory networks

PhD researcher

2007 - 2010

Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
Advisors: Prof. Florian Hollfelder and Prof. Chris Abell
PhD Thesis: "DNA amplification and in vitro transcription/translation in microfluidic droplets for protein engineering"

Diploma studies

2002 - 2006

Biochemistry and molecular biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Diploma thesis: "Comparative studies of amyloid formation of mouse, elk and mouse/elk hybrid prion proteins and peptides"
Advisor: Prof. Kurt Wüthrich

Exchange semester (ERASMUS programme) at Imperial College London, UK

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

Outstanding mentoring award, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne (2024)

Outstanding undergaduate teaching award, School of Biology, University of Lausanne (2022)

NCCR Microbiomes (2020-present)

Swiss National Science Foundation project grants (2017-2021, 2021-2025, 2025-2029)

Fondation Herbette (2020-2021)

SystemsX.ch IPhD grant together with Prof. Wagner and Prof. Payne (2016-2019)

Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione grant (2014-2017)

Marie Curie Intra-European fellowship (2012-2014)

Swiss National Science Foundation fellowship for prospective researchers (2013-2014)

Cambridge Overseas Trust bursary (2007-2010)

Trinity Hall research bursary (2007-2010)

Doctoral fellowship of Ernst Schering Foundation (2007-2009)

UK Overseas Research Studentship (ORS) (not accepted due to status change of Swiss citizens)

ERASMUS fellowship for exchange semester (2004)