Principal Investigator Helmholtz Pioneer Campus
Dr. Nicolas Battich
Research Area
Nico Battich began his scientific career in Scotland, where in 2010 he obtained a first-class degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Glasgow. He carried out his Ph.D. in Systems Biology at the University of Zurich. Nicolas has been awarded postdoctoral fellowships from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Human Frontier Science Program to conduct research at the Hubrecht Institute in the Netherlands. He is a group leader at the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus in Munich since August 2022, where he works on the systems biology of stem cell differentiation.
Professional Background
2022 - present
Principal Investigator Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Helmholtz Munich
2016 - 2021
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, NL
2010 - 2016
Ph.D. Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich
2008 - 2009
Master Student at Astra Zeneca, Dept. of Molecular Toxicology, Macclesfield, UK
2008
Internship at the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Amsterdam
2007
Internship at the Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
Honors and Awards
- 2021 ERC Starting Grant, EU
- 2019 EMBO workshop on Single Cell Biology Poster Prize, Japan
- 2017 Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2017 SNSF Early Mobility Postdoctoral Fellowship, Switzerland
- 2016 Annual Prize of the Faculty of Science for Best Doctoral Thesis, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 2013 EMBO Poster Prize, 5th EMBO meeting, Amsterdam, NL
- 2013 SystemsX Day Poster Prize, Bern, Switzerland
- 2010 Class Prize Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Glasgow, UK
- 2009 Sainsbury Studentship of the Gatsby Foundation, UK
- 2007 Lorimer Bursary, University of Glasgow, UK
- 2007 Gatsby Work-Placement Bursary, Gatsby Foundation, UK
- 2007 Dobbie Smith Prize for Plant Science, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
