PatrickBarth EPFLSwitzerland

Prof. Patrick Barth is an Associate Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, where he leads the Protein and Cell Engineering Laboratory. He studied Physics, Chemistry, and Biology at the University of Paris and the École Normale Supérieure, followed by a PhD at the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique in Saclay, France. He later pursued postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley and the University of Washington, working with Tom Alber and David Baker to develop cutting-edge computational methods for protein structure prediction and design. After launching his independent career at Baylor College of Medicine, Prof. Barth continues his work at EPFL, integrating computational and experimental approaches to advance protein design, explore the molecular mechanisms of signal transduction, and engineer proteins with novel functions for synthetic biology and therapeutic applications.