Peter Swoboda

Nationality: Austrian

Education and Appointments:

2002 - present: Assistant Professor at the Department of Biosciences, Karolinska Institute, and at the School of Life Sciences, Södertörn University College, Huddinge, Sweden

during 2001: Teaching Assistant Professor at the Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

1995 - 2000: Postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

1990 - 1994: PhD thesis at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (in association with the University of Basel) in Basel, Switzerland (Publications)

1989 - 1990: Diploma thesis at the Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Vienna, Austria and at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel, Switzerland. Graduation at the University of Vienna, Austria

Fellowships, Grants and Awards:

2002 - 2006: Research grant from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (Stockholm, Sweden)

1996 - 1997: Postdoctoral grant from the International Human Frontier Science Promotion Organization (Strasbourg, France)

1995: Postdoctoral research fellowship from the Erwin Schrödinger Foundation (Vienna, Austria)

1991 - 1992: Graduate research fellowship from the Foundation of the Swiss Chemical Industries (Zürich, Switzerland)

1990: Student Exchange Program Grant from Austria (Federal Ministry of Science and Research in Vienna) and Switzerland (Confederate Department of Internal Affairs in Bern)

1989 - 1990: Undergraduate research fellowship from the Federal Ministry of Science and Research (Vienna, Austria)