Prof. Dr. Michael Nash

Prof. Dr. Michael A. Nash: 

Professor Michael A. Nash (University of Basel/ ETH Zurich) earned a BS with highest honors in Cybernetics of Biomedical Systems from the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) and a PhD in Bioengineering and Nanotechnology from the University of Washington (UW), Seattle. He worked as a technical intern at the Caltech/NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and at the Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL). Prof. Nash trained in Applied Biophysics as a postdocoral fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (LMU München) and was appointed tenure-track assistant professor in 2016. Since 2021 he has served as tenured Associate Professor for Engineering of Synthetic Systems at the University of Basel (Physical Chemistry) and ETH Zurich (Biosystems Science and Engineering). Michael is a Human Frontier Science Program Young Investigator, an ERC Starting and Consolidator grantee, and a member of the Swiss Nanoscience Institute. He is a former fellow of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Society in Science - The Branco Weiss Fellowship. In 2023 he was awarded a student-nominated Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Basel in the category Strong Foundations for his lectures, which have introduced physical chemistry topics to >3,000 students in the Basel region. His research revolves around developing innovative molecular therapeutic and diagnostic technologies using an interdisciplinary toolkit derived from nanobiotechnology, bioengineering, and physical chemistry. His lab focuses on protein engineering, directed evolution, single-molecule biophysics, and the interface between synthetic and biological systems.