Lukas Kühn

Lukas Kühn is a Professor Emeritus at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), affiliated with the BIO department. He graduated in biochemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich and earned his PhD in 1979 for a thesis supervised by Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl at the University of Lausanne. Following postdoctoral work in Lausanne and with Frank Ruddle at Yale University, he became group leader at ISREC in 1984, was promoted senior scientist in 1988, and became an EPFL Adjunct Professor (professeur titulaire) in June 2008. His research interests include biochemistry and molecular biology.