Ralph Müller

President

Institute for Biomechanics
ETH Zürich, HCI E 357.2
Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10
8093 Zürich
Switzerland

e-mail: ram@ethz.ch
website: http://www.biomech.ethz.ch


Ralph Müller is an Associate Professor of Biomechanics and the Director of the Institute for Biomechanics at ETH Zürich. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from ETH in 1994. In 1996, he moved to Boston where he served as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Associate Director of the Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory. Between 2000 and 2006, he was an SNF Professor of Bioengineering at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zürich. The research he has completed and is currently pursuing employs state-of-the-art biomechanical testing and simulation techniques as well as novel bioimaging and visualization strategies for biological tissues. Today, these methods are successfully employed for the quantitative assessment of structure function relationships in tissue healing, growth and adaptation. His approaches are now often used for precise phenotypic characterization of tissue response in mammalian genetics, gene therapy and mechanobiology. He is an author of 303 refereed journal and proceeding articles, 1 book, 52 chapters and reviews, and over 310 peer-reviewed abstracts. He has received a number of awards, including the Inaugural John Haddad Young Investigator Award (1998) from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) and Advances in Mineral Metabolism (AIMM) as well as the Promising Young Scientist Award (1999) from the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB). In 2004, he was named Young Leader by the American-Swiss Foundation and in 2006, he received the Publication Group Award from the German Academy of Osteological and Rheumatological Sciences. He is also active as an organiser of international symposia and working groups as well as an editor and a reviewer for scientific journals and funding agencies.