Erich Nigg (born 28 November 1952[1] in Uster) is a Swiss cell biologist.

Erich Nigg received his PhD in 1980 from the ETH Zürich (Biochemistry).

From 1995 he was Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Geneva before he was appointed, in 1999, to a Directorship at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry[2] in Martinsried, Germany.

From 2009 - 2018 was Erich Nigg Professor of Cell Biology and Director of the Biozentrum at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

[3] After early work on biological membranes, the structure of the cell nucleus and mechanisms of intracellular signal transduction, Erich Nigg's research focused on the cell cycle.