Fabienne Benz – CV

Employment

2026-05 to ongoing | SNSF Ambizione Group Leader  

Department of Quantitative Biomedicine, Molecular Plasmid Ecology Group 

University of Zurich

2022-11 to 2026-05 | Postdoc 

With David Bikard (Synthetic Biology Unit) and Eduardo Rocha (Microbial Evolutionary Genomics Unit)

Institut Pasteur Paris

2020-10 to 2021-07 | Research Stay 

With Rafael Pinilla-Redondo (Bacterial Immunity Lab)

University of Copenhagen

2017-10 to 2022-05 | PhD Student

With Alex Hall (Pathogen Ecology Group) and Martin Ackermann (Microbial Systems Ecology Group)

ETH Zurich

Education and Qualifications

2017-10 to 2022-05 | PhD

Department of Environmental Systems Science ETH Zurich

2015-09 to 2017-08 | MSc in Environmental Science

Department of Environmental Systems Science ETH Zurich

2011-09 to 2015-11 | BSc in Environmental Science

Department of Environmental Systems Science ETH Zurich

Funding

2026-05 to ongoing | SNSF Ambizione Fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation

2024-11 to 2026-10 | Pasteur-Roux-Cantarini Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institut Pasteur

2022-11 to 2024-10 | SNSF Postdoc Mobility, Swiss National Science Foundation

2020-10 to 2021-06 | SNSF Doc Mobility, Swiss National Science Foundation