Valérie Hilgers Topic

Dr. Valérie Hilgers is a Professor at the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Her research focuses on the regulation of RNA processing, and how the molecular identity of neurons shapes nervous system development and function. She obtained a Master’s in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Ecole Normale Supérieure and Sorbonne Université (formerly Université Paris 6/UPMC) in France, and a PhD from EMBL and University of Heidelberg in Germany. She was a Postdoctoral researcher with Michael Levine at University of California at Berkeley before becoming a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg, Germany. In 2025, Dr. Hilgers joined the faculty of the University of Basel Faculty of Medicine. For her research, she has received support from the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the European Research Council (ERC).