Dr. David Schnettler Fernández
Dr. David Schnettler Fernández
Staff of Professorship for Bioprocess
Additional information
Since 2021: Postdoctoral researcher, ETH Zurich
2016–2021: PhD in Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
2015–2016: MPhil in Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
2014-2015: M1 in Biology, École Normale Supérieure de Paris
2011-2014: B. Sc. in Life Science, University of Constance
I am interested in how proteins evolve and how their properties determine their 'innovability' towards new function. To this end, I subject isofunctional proteins to directed evolution and marry high-throughput functional screening with long-read sequencing to track their evolutionary trajectories.