Academic activities:
Member of the steering committee of the "Life Science Zurich Ph'D program" (2002-​2007)
Member of the admission committee of the "Life Science Zurich Ph'D program" (2003-​2005)
Vice-​Chair of the Molecular Life Science PhD program (2004-​2007)
Member of the Editorial Board of Nucleic Acid Research (since 2006)
Member of the advisory board for studies within the Department of Chemistry at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France (since 2006)
Director of the Biomolecular Structure and Mechanism PhD program (2006-​2013)
Chairman of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics (2008)
Director of the RNA Biology PhD program (since 2014)
Co-​Director NCCR RNA & Disease (since 2014)
Student and postdoctoral Fellowships:
2001 Howard Hughes Medical Institute postdoctoral fellowship
Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation/UCLA postdoctoral fellowship
1998-​99 Long Term H.F.S.P.O Postdoctoral Fellowship
1997 Long Term E.M.B.O Postdoctoral Fellowship
1990-​94 4 years student fellowship from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)
Awards:
2009 Elected EMBO Member
2003 EMBO Young Investigator Award
2002 Laureat of the Fondation Schlumberger pour l'Education et la Recherche
2000 Boyer'Parvin postdoctoral recognition award 2000
2000 UCLA chancellor award for Postdoctoral research 2000
1996 Max Perutz Student Prize 1996