Urs Albrecht

Education:

1983-1988 Department of Biochemistry, University of Zürich, Switzerland. Awarded the degree of Dipl. Phil. II in Biochemistry.

1989-1993 Department of Zoology, University of Bern, Switzerland. Awarded the degree of Dr. phil. nat.

Employment history:

1993-1998 Postdoctoral Fellow Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA.

1998-1999 Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA.

1999- 2001 Assistant Professor at the Max-Planck Institute for experimental Endocrinology, Hanover, Germany.

2001-2017 Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

2018- present Full Professor, Dept. of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Current Research Interests:

· Circadian clock mechanism

· Functions of Per1 and Per2

· Relationships between the clock and mood and how light and food affect these relationships

Quantitative Science Indicators:

• Total number of citations: 20.612, h-factor: 60 (Source: Google Scholar), i-10-index: 125
• 98 original research articles, 26 review articles, 5 comments solicited by Journals, 13 book chapters, 1 book edited.

Awards:

1996 V.C. Joshi Memorial Award, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

1997 In the top ten breakthroughs of the year, Science magazine

1998 V.C. Joshi Memorial Award, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

2005 Cloëtta-Prize for Medicine, Switzerland