Wolfgang Langhans

Biography

Wolfgang Langhans (WL) has been a professor at ETH Zurich since 1988. He received a DVM from the University of Munich 1981, was awarded the Hans Adolf Krebs Prize by the German Nutrition Society in 1982, and spent two months in 1983 at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in White Plains, NY, learning neurosurgical techniques. WL joined the Institute of Veterinary Physiology at the University of Zurich in 1983, where he completed habilitation in 1987. In a six-month sabbatical in 1996 at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, he developed expertise in single unit electrophysiological recording. WL was Institute Head (1992 – 1993, 2006 – 2009), and Chair of D-AGRL (1997 – 1999). He acted as Dean of VETSUISSE (2003 - 2006) merging the Faculties of Veterinary Medicine in Zurich and Bern into a unified VETSUISSE Faculty. During this time, he continued to run his laboratory, but was relieved from teaching and administrative duties. WL was chair of a strategic planning committee for the establishment of the new department D-HEST at ETH Zurich (2010 – 2011) and founding Chair of this department (2012 – 2013). WL’s research focuses on the physiology and pathophysiology of the neuroendocrine control of eating and energy balance, including obesity and type II diabetes.

Research Interest

Physiological mechanisms that control eating; Energy balance and their disturbances