Nicolas Plachta studied biology at the University of Buenos Aires and University of Tel-Aviv. He obtained his PhD degree with Yves-Alain Barde at the Biozentrum (University of Basel, Switzerland) and conducted post-doctoral research in biological imaging with Scott Fraser at Caltech, supported by fellowships from the Swiss National Foundation, EMBO and CIRM. Plachta was appointed Group Leader at EMBL Australia in 2011. He joined A*STAR’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) in 2015 as a Senior Principal Investigator on an A*STAR Investigatorship. He has also received the Viertel Medical Fellowship, Australian NHMRC Fellowship and ARC Fellowship. In 2015, Plachta became the third Singapore-based scientist to join the EMBO Young Investigator Program. In 2016, he was awarded the Gibco–Emerging Leader Prize by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). In 2017, he became an HHMI International Scholar.
