Prof. Martin Jinek

Date of birth:	May 31, 1979
Nationality:	Czech

Since August 2024	Full Professor of Biochemistry, UZH
2018 – 2024	Associate Professor of Biochemistry, UZH
2013 – 2017	Assistant Professor (Tenure track) of Biochemistry, University of Zurich
2007 – 2012	Postdoctoral Associate, University of California (Prof. J.A. Doudna), Berkeley, USA
2006	Ph.D. European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Dr. E. Conti), Heidelberg, DE
2002	M.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Cambridge (Dr. J.B. Spencer), UK
1998 – 2002	B.A. in Natural Sciences, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK


2017	International Research Scholar Award of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2016	Georg Friedrich Götz Award
2015	Friedrich Miescher Award
2014	Ernst Th. Jucker Award
2014	John Kendrew Young Scientist Award of the EMBL
2013	Starting Independent Researcher Grant funded by the European Research Council
2007 - 2010	Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Long-Term Fellowship
2007	European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Postdoctoral Fellowship
2002 - 2006	EMBL Predoctoral Fellowship
2002	Special Examiners’ Prize for academic performance
2001	Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, The Rockefeller University, New York
2000 - 2002	Trinity College Senior Scholarship
1999 - 2000	Trinity College Junior Scholarship
1998 - 2002	Trinity College Eastern European Bursary - full tuition scholarship at the University of Cambridge

Department of Biochemistry