Prof. Dr. Ralph Müller

Biography

Ralph Müller is a Full Professor of Biomechanics at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology 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, he was the Director of the Institute for Biomechanics and between 2014 and 2016, he served as the Head of the Department of Health Sciences and Technology.

Research Interest

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 1,100 scientific articles and abstracts. His work has been cited over 14,000 times with an h-index of 63, which ranks him in the top 1% of the ISI Essential Science Indicators in the three fields of Engineering, Biology & Biochemistry and Materials Science.