Prof. Dr. Eilika Weber-Ban

Eilika Weber-Ban was born on November 15^th, 1968 in Karlsruhe, Germany. She studied Biochemistry as an undergraduate at the University of Tübingen. With a Fulbright-Scholarship she joined the graduate program of the University of California at Riverside, where she obtained a PhD degree in Biochemistry in 1996 working with Prof. Michael Dunn.  After completion of her PhD studies, she was awarded a Jane-Coffin-Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at Yale University with Prof. Arthur Horwich. In 2001 she joined the Institute of Molecular Biology & Biophysics at the ETH Zurich to establish her own research group.

Aside from her lecturing responsibilities, Eilika Weber-Ban is chair of the Life Science Zurich Graduate School, a joint graduate program between ETH Zurich and University of Zurich. She is the teaching delegate of the Institute for Molecular Biology & Biophysics and is the student advisor for the elective major “Molecular and Structural Biology” in the Biology Master program. In this function she is also a member of the teaching commission of the Department of Biology. She is a member of the Master Student Admission Committee and heads the Master Student Excellence Scholarship Evaluation and Selection Committee for the Department of Biology.