Stefanie Jonas

Current Position

since 10/2024 • Associate Professor at ETH Zurich­­ • Department of Biology • Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Education and Research Training

08/2017 – 09/2024 • Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich­­ • Department of Biology • Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics

01/2015 – 07/2017 • Postdoctoral fellow in the group of Ulrike Kutay at the Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich
Study of human ribosome biogenesis

02/2010 – 12/2014 • Postdoctoral fellow in the group of external page Elisa Izaurralde at the Department of Biochemistry, Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Structural and functional characterization of post-transcriptional gene regulation and mRNA quality control pathways

01/2006 – 12/2009 • PhD student in the group of external page Florian Hollfelder at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Thesis: "Structural and mechanistic aspects of catalytic promiscuity in the alkaline phosphatase superfamily"

07/2004 – 04/2005 • Research for Master's thesis (Diplomarbeit) in the group of external page Jennifer Doudna under supervision of external page Katrin Karbstein at the University of California, Berkeley, USA
Thesis: "Biochemical and genetic dissection of the role of Bms1 in ribosome biogenesis in yeast"

10/2000 – 07/2005 • M.Sc. (Diplom) in Chemistry, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany

Awards & Fellowships

2024 • Elisa Izaurralde Award of the RNA Society

2022–2027 • ERC Consolidator Grant

2022–2025 • EMBO Young Investigator Programme Member

2015–2017 • FEBS Long-Term Fellowship

2012–2014 • Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship

2011–2012 • EMBO Long-Term Fellowship

2006–2009 • German National Academic Foundation, graduate student scholarship • Cambridge Trust, graduate student bursary

2003–2005 • German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), undergraduate student scholarship