Michael Hengartner

Michael Otmar Hengartner (born June 5, 1966 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss - Canadian biochemist and molecular biologist . He has been President of the ETH Board since February 2020 . Before that, he was Rector of the University of Zurich from 2014 and President of the Swiss Rectors' Conference swissuniversities from 2016 .

Life

Hengartner was born in Switzerland in 1966 as the son of a mathematics professor. After the birth of Hengartner, the family lived in Paris , later in Bloomington (Indiana) and Montreal . Hengartner grew up in Québec City , where he studied biochemistry at Laval University until 1988 . He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994 with H. Robert Horvitz . He then headed a research group at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In 2001 he was appointed to the newly established Ernst Hadorn endowed professorship at the Institute for Molecular Biology at the University of Zurich. From 2009 to 2014 he was dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Zurich, then rector of the University of Zurich until the beginning of 2020. On February 1, 2020, he took up his position as President of the ETH Board.

Since 2009 he has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Hengartner is married to the biologist Denise Hengartner. The couple have six children.

Research priorities

Hengartner researches the molecular basis of apoptosis . He primarily uses the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism . He also investigates the mechanisms of cancer , Alzheimer's and old age diseases .

Awards

2003: Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Research Prize
2006: Swiss National Latsis Prize
2006: Cloëtta Prize
2010: Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching from the University of Zurich
2016: Honorary doctorate from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and the University of Paris-Sorbonne

Web links

Prof. Dr. Michael O. Hengartner, President of the ETH Board. In: ETH Board . Retrieved May 25, 2020
Hengartner as Rector ( Memento from July 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) at the University of Zurich
Michael O. Hengartner at the Leopoldina ( CV PDF )
Matthias Daum: I am a pragmatic idealist. Interview with Hengartner, Die Zeit, February 6, 2014
Interview with ETH Board President Professor Dr. Michael Hengartner , Syrup - the student radio program from UZH and ETH, February 28, 2020

Individual evidence

↑ Prof. Dr. Michael O. Hengartner, President of the ETH Board. In: ETH Board . Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
↑ Michael Hengartner in office: “We have to make Bologna more educationally compatible” , Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 2, 2014
↑ ^a ^b “Hi, I'm Michael” , Tages-Anzeiger, June 25, 2013
↑ University Rector Hengartner becomes President of the ETH Board. In: bluewin.ch . September 4, 2019, accessed May 25, 2020 .
↑ Member entry by Michael Hengartner (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 1, 2016.
↑ Great honor from Paris. In: University of Zurich . October 17, 2016, accessed May 25, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hengartner, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hengartner, Michael Otmar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss-Canadian biochemist and molecular biologist, Rector of the University of Zurich and President of the Swiss Rectors' Conference
DATE OF BIRTH	5th June 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Gallen

[1] Prof. Dr. Michael O. Hengartner, President of the ETH Board. In: ETH Board . Retrieved May 25, 2020 .

[2] Michael Hengartner in office: “We have to make Bologna more educationally compatible” , Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 2, 2014

[ta2013-3] “Hi, I'm Michael” , Tages-Anzeiger, June 25, 2013

[4] University Rector Hengartner becomes President of the ETH Board. In: bluewin.ch . September 4, 2019, accessed May 25, 2020 .

[5] Member entry by Michael Hengartner (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 1, 2016.

[6] Great honor from Paris. In: University of Zurich . October 17, 2016, accessed May 25, 2020 .