Prof. Dr. Ralph Müller
Prof. Dr. Ralph Müller
Full Professor at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology
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Professor Müller's research employs state-of-the-art biomechanical testing and simulation techniques as well as novel bioimaging and visualization strategies for musculoskeletal tissues. Today, these techniques are successfully employed for the quantitative assessment and monitoring of structure function relationships in tissue regeneration, growth and adaptation. His approaches are now often used for precise phenotypic characterization of tissue response in mammalian genetics, mechanobiology as well as tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. He is an author of more than 1,400 scientific articles and abstracts. His work has been cited over 47,000 times on Google Scholar with an h-index of 113.
Ralph Müller is a Full Professor of Biomechanics at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST) at ETH Zurich.
Born on May 5, 1964, in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, he studied electrical engineering at ETH Zurich, where he also received his doctoral degree in 1994. Subsequently, he served as a project manager for the micro-computed tomography project of the European Union Concerted Action BIOMED1. In 1996, he moved to Boston, where before his return to Switzerland 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 2011, he was first an SNF Professor of Bioengineering at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering and then Associate and Full Professor of Biomechanics at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich. From 2008-2013 and again from 2021-2023, he was the Director of the Institute for Biomechanics and from 2014-2016, he served as the Head of the Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST).
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Professor Müller has received a number of awards, including more recently the Mike Horton Award from the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS), the Huiskes Medal for Biomechanics from the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB) and the Muybridge Award from International Society of Biomechanics (ISB). He is an elected member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) and a Fellow of the European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering and Science (EAMBES), the World Council of Biomechanics (WCB), and the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR). In 2017, the European Research Council (ERC) awarded him with a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant.
He is also active as an organizer of international symposia and workshops as well as an editorial board member and reviewer for scientific journals and funding agencies. He is a former President of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB) and the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering (SSBE) and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Bone Morphometry (ISBM) and the International Federation of Musculoskeletal Research Societies (IFMRS). He is a founder and co-organizer of the ETH graduate program in Biomedical Engineering. He has held scientific and management positions on more than 70 research grants and currently receives funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation, European Union, ERC Advanced, COST, and various ETH intramural funds. He is a founder and co-organizer of the ETH graduate program in Biomedical Engineering. He co-founded three spin-off companies, Pearl Technology AG, developing and marketing novel patient positioning systems for medical imaging procedures using patented technology from ETH Zürich, b-cube AG, now a subsidiary of Scanco Medical, and most recently compagOs, a diagnostics biotechnology company engineering personalized cancer in bone organoids.
Course Catalogue
Spring Semester 2025
| Number | Unit |
|---|---|
| 376-0022-00L | Imaging and Computing in Medicine |
| 376-1397-00L | Orthopaedic Biomechanics |
| 376-1974-00L | Colloquium in Biomechanics |