Melanie Blokesch holds a PhD degree from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. After a postdoctoral stay at Stanford University (USA; Department of Microbiology and Immunology) she joined EPFL as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 2009 and was promoted to Associate Professor (tenured) in 2016 and Full Professor in 2021. Since 2022, she is serving as director of the Global Health Institute at EPFL.
In 2018, Melanie Blokesch was nominated as Research Councillor of the the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) National Research Council (2019-2025). From 2019-2022, she also served as member of the Specialised Committee Interdisciplinary (FAID) & the Sinergia Evaluation Committee of the SNSF.
Melanie Blokesch is an elected member of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM; since 2018), the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO; since 2019), the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina (since 2021), and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM; since 2022).
Among other awards and grants, Melanie Blokesch has been honored with the Prize for Junior Scientists of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2005, an ERC Starting Grant in 2012, the EPFL teaching award "Polysphère" for best teacher in the School of Life Sciences (academic year 2014-2015), the Research Award by the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM; Germany) in 2015, and an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2016. In 2017, Melanie Blokesch was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Research Scholarship.

A detailed CV is posted on my laboratory's webpage, which you can find here:
http://blokesch-lab.epfl.ch

2022: Elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM).
2021: Elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina.
2019: Elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
2018: Elected member of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM).
2018-2024: European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (single PI; awarded 2016).
2017-2022: Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Research Scholar
2017: Awardee ‘25 Frauen, deren Erfindungen unser Leben verändern' by Edition F, ZEIT online, Handelsblatt and Gründerszene, Berlin, Germany.
2017-2021: Research grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation in the framework of the National Research Program 72 'Antimicrobial Resistance' (single PI).
2016-2018: Swiss National Science Foundation individual grant (single PI).
2015: EPFL teaching award "Polysphère" for best teacher in the School of Life Sciences.
2015: Research Award, Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM), Germany.
2013-2018: European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (single PI; awarded 2012).
2013: Invited Speaker Meeting Grant, GMM4 meeting, Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS).
2013-2015: Swiss National Science Foundation individual grant (single PI).
2012-2013: Research grant, Novartis Foundation for Medical and Biological Research.
2012: Teaching award, Teaching Section School of Life Sciences, EPFL.
2012: Seed money, EPFL Cooperation & Development Center.
2009-2012: Swiss National Science Foundation individual grant (single PI).
2007-2008: Dean's Fellowship Award, Stanford University School of Medicine.
2005-2007: Research Fellowship, German Research Foundation (DFG).
2005: Prize for Junior Scientists, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
2005: Thesis Award, Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM).
2004: Student Travel Grant, ASM 104th General Meeting in New Orleans, USA.