User:Quaenuncabibis/Sebastian Maerkl

Sebastian Josef Maerkl (born 1980 in Munich, Germany) is a German XXX. He is a professor of XXX at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the head of the Laboratory of Biological Network Characterization.

Career
In 2001, Maerkl received Bachelo's degrees in biology and in chemistry from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He then joined Stephen Quake at the Biophysics and Biochemistry Department at the California Institute of Technology and contributed to the early development of microfluidic technology. He graduated in the field of biotechnology with a PhD thesis on "Microfluidic Large-Scale Integration and its Application to Systems Biology."

For this work he was awarded the Demetriades-Tsafka-Kokalis prize, and the 1st place at the Innovator’s Challenge from Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, and California Institute of Technology.

In 2008, Maerkl joined the EPFL's Institute of Bioengineering and the School of Engineering first as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2015.

In 2012 and received the Prix SSV – Ambition for dedication to teaching and promotion of EPFL students and the school at large. Prof. Maerkl was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant, an HFSP Program Grant, a SystemsX.ch RTD grant, a SNF Sinergia grant, and a SNF NRP 78 Covid-19 research grant amongst others. Prof. Maerkl published over 50 peer-reviewed publications and 6 patents, gave over 90 invited seminars, organised several international conferences and workshops, and serves as a reviewer for national and international funding agencies and journals. The lab hosted one Fulbright Scholar, two Whitaker and one Think Swiss Fellows. His lab is currently working at the interface of micro-engineering, systems biology, synthetic biology, and molecular diagnostics. Prof Maerkl started the EPFL iGEM team in 2008 and has been advising the teams from 2008 to 2020. During this period the EPFL teams won 8 Gold, 2 Silver, and 1 bronze medal and were awarded 5 prices. In 2019, the EPFL iGEM team became the Grand Prize Winner in the Overgrad category and the first Swiss team to have won the competition.

Distinctions
2019 iGEM Grand Prize Winner https://2019.igem.org/Competition/Results https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Genetically_Engineered_Machine 2012 Prix SSV - Ambition 2008 Demetriades-Tsafka-Kokkalis Prize in Biotechnology or Related Fields https://www.demetriades.caltech.edu/winners.html

Selected works