Prof. Dr. Rudolf Aebersold

Rudolf Aebersold has been Full Professor of Systems Biology at the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology at ETH Zurich since 1 November 2004.

Rudolf Aebersold concluded his studies in 1979 at the University of Basle with a diploma in Cell Biology. In 1983 he obtained his PhD at the Biozentrum Basel. From 1984-88 Aebersold spent four years as a Postdoc and Senior Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. From 1989-93 he held an Assistant Professorship in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he consequently became Associate Professor from 1993-98 and Professor in the Department of Molecular Biotechnology from 1998-2000. Since 2000 he has been Affiliate Professor at this university and co-founder of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle. Since 2001 Aebersold has also had a subsidiary teaching position at the University of Zurich. He has received many prizes along the way, amongst others, the MRC Candad Scholarship, the Killam Research Prize, the Pehr Edman Award, the American Society of Mass Spectrometry Biemann Medal and the Michael Widmer Award.