Yolanda Schaerli

Yolanda Schaerli is an associate professor (since 2023) of synthetic biology at the Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Previously, she was assistant professor at the University of Lausanne (2017-2022), junior group leader at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (2014-2017), postdoc at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain (2010-2014) and PhD student at the University of Cambridge, UK (2007-2010). Her group carries out research in bacterial synthetic biology with a focus on synthetic gene regulatory networks capable of forming spatial and temporal patterns.