Michael Affolter - Nestlé Research Centre

Senior Research Scientist - Functional Genomics Group

Dr. Michael Affolter is a senior research scientist in the Functional Genomics Group at the Nestle Research Centre (Switzerland) and is heading the proteomics platform with a special focus to implement new technologies for protein analyses in the context of Nutrigenomics. His team develops and integrates mass spectrometry based protein express profiling with bioinformatics and computational molecular science. Major application fields are immunology, diabetes, obesity, and digestive health. Being educated as an analytical biochemist, Dr. Affolter has acquired extensive research experience over the last fifteeen years in the biotechnological and nutritional industry.

He holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in biochemistry, obtained at the University of Berne, Switzerland. During his doctorate and post-doctorate (Prof. R. Aebersold, Biomedical Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada), he has specialised in analytical protein biochemistry and mass spectrometry based proteomics.

Dr. Affolter has (co-) authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications and filed over 10 patent applications. He is an active board member of the Swiss Proteomics Society and a member of the American Society for Biochem. Mol. Biology and the Swiss Group for Mass Spectrometry.