In 1978 he moved as a postdoc to the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, in Boston.

In 1980 he returned to Switzerland and began research in Urs A. Meyer‘s Group, initially at the University of Zurich and later at the Biozentrum.

In addition, he served as Director of Studies in Biology and Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Basel.

[2] Hauri discovered that the membrane protein CLIMP-63 mediates the interaction of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and microtubules.

[4] Using a screening method, which he developed, he succeeded to systematically record protein interactions in the secretory pathway in living cells.