Johannes GräffAcademic appointments
2013- Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, School of Life Sciences, Brain Mind Institute.
2009-2013 Postdoctoral fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.
2009 Postdoctoral associate, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Zürich, Switzerland, Brain Research Institute.
Education
2009 PhD in Neurosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Zürich, Switzerland, Department of Biology, Brain Research Institute.
2005 Diploma (M.Sc. equivalent) in Biological Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Department of Ecology and Evolution.
1998 Matura, Gymnasium Type B, Kantonsschule am Burggraben St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Johannes Le CoutreDr le Coutre obtained his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany in 1995. Between 1996-2000, he held a postdoctoral post and was a research associate at HHMI / UCLA, Los Angeles. Since 2000 he has been a Senior Research Scientist and Head of Perception Physiology at the Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr le Coutre holds a teaching assignment at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and he is a visiting Professor at Todai University of Tokyo, Japan. Since 2017 le Coutre is responsible for Nestlé Research in the greater London area, where he holds a visiting Professorship at Imperial College London.
Over the past decade le Coutre has initiated various large scale global research programs integrating the private and the public sectors. With a strong track record of membrane biophysics his research focus has been shifting from taste physiology at the periphery toward central representation of stimulation in the brain.