Senior Advisor to the President, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Short biography
Gérard Escher, born in 1956, obtained his diploma in Biology at the University of Geneva, and his PhD at the University of Lausanne. He joined the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow. After his return to Switzerland (University of Lausanne), he lead a research group on synapse formation. In 1999, he became scientific advisor to Secretary of State Charles Kleiber. He became assistant director at the State Secretariat for Education and Research in January 2005, in charge of science policy and forecast. In November 2008 he moved to the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne, where he acts as senior advisor to President Patrick Aebischer.
