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Ernst Hafen, 2017

Ernst Hafen (born July 2, 1956 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss biologist . He was President of ETH Zurich in 2005/06 .

Hafen studied molecular and cell biology in Basel . He received his PhD in developmental biology in 1983 and then worked in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1987 he was appointed assistant professor at the Zoological Institute of the University of Zurich , where he carried out research on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster .

He was elected President of ETH Zurich on December 1, 2005 . On November 1, 2006, after criticizing the ETH 2020 project and irreconcilable differences with the professors, he announced his resignation. Since then he has been a professor at the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology at ETH Zurich, where he initiated and subsequently headed the WingX project. The project deals with the multidisciplinary systems biology of the fruit fly's wings.

In 2008, he and others founded the consulting company evalueSCIENCE, which deals with quality assurance in academic institutions and uses an international network of experts to develop studies and assessments. Ernst Hafen is President of the Biotechnopark Zurich-Schlieren. In 2009, together with colleagues from the Leiden Medical Center and the University of Oxford , he initiated a “Regions of Knowledge” project of the EU called HealthTIES. This project analyzes the innovation cycle from basic research in biomedicine to product marketing. As part of this project, new assessment tools were developed to compare the productivity and efficiency of different regions in research, technology transfer and industrial performance.

Since 2012, Hafen has been involved in data cooperatives in which personal data can be stored and shared. The Data and Health Association, on whose board Ernst Hafen was a seat, also campaigned for this. The aim of the association was to «advance the debate on the collection and use of individual medical data in Switzerland. Associated with this is the discussion and deepening of the scientific, ethical, social, legal and political aspects of information about personal data in the field of health and medicine. " The association was dissolved at the end of 2019 because it had fulfilled its intended purpose.

In 2004 Ernst Hafen received the Otto Naegeli Prize . Since 1999 he has been a full member of the Academia Europaea . He is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization .

In 2014, Hafen was rated by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute as one of the 99 most influential contemporary thinkers in German-speaking countries.

He is one of the supporters of the Charter of Fundamental Digital Rights of the European Union , which was published at the end of November 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ETHlife: Building on the success of ETH
  2. ^ Website Institute of Molecular Systems Biology at ETH Zurich
  3. WingX website ( memento of the original from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wingx.ch
  4. site evalueSCIENCE
  5. site HealthTIES
  6. ^ Website data and health
  7. ↑ Directory of members: Ernst Hafen. Academia Europaea, accessed August 9, 2017 .
  8. ^ Website Vordenker DA-CH , Tagesanzeiger