Shinichi Sunagawa is a professor in the Department of Biology at ETH Zürich since 2016. He was born in Germany, where he studied Biochemistry (Diploma 2002) and Marine Ecology (MSc 2005). In 2010, he graduated with a PhD in Systems Biology at the University of California, Merced, USA, before he joined the Computational Biology group of Peer Bork at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany. At the EMBL he initially worked as a postdoc (2010-​2011), and then as Research-​ and Staff Scientist (2012-​2016). In 2016, he was appionted as Assistant Professor and promoted to Associate Professor of Microbiome Research at ETH Zürich in 2020.