This or that? Christian Wolfrum in a video interview
Lab or office? Fundamentals or application? Trust or control? Christian Wolfrum has been Vice President for Research at ETH since January 2023. We ask him a series of either-or questions.
Christian Wolfrum took over from Detlef Günther on the first of January. The biomedical scientist introduces himself to the ETH community in this video interview.
Christian Wolfrum has been a professor at the Institute of Food Nutrition and Health at ETH Zurich since 2017. Wolfrum studied chemistry in Münster. After receiving his doctorate, he worked for six years as a postdoctoral fellow at The Rockefeller University in New York. In 2008 he was appointed Assistant Professor for Obesity Research at ETH Zurich. His research focuses on elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying the altered adipocyte differentiation and maturation associated with obesity and other metabolic disorders. Christian Wolfrum received an ERC Starting Grant in 2008 and the Rössler Prize in 2014.
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