Vogel, Viola, Prof. Dr.

ETH Zürich Prof. Dr. Viola Vogel Chair of Applied Mechanobiology HCI F 443 Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10 8093 Zürich Switzerland Phone: +41 44 632 08 87 Fax: +41 44 632 10 73 E-Mail:

Viola Vogel is a Professor in the Department Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST), heading the Laboratory of Applied Mechanobiology at the ETH Zurich. After completing her graduate research at the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Profs. Hans Kuhn and Dietmar Möbius), she received her PhD in Physics at the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, followed by two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics (Prof. Y. Ron Shen) where she applied nonlinear optical techniques to analyze fluid interfaces. She became an Assistant Professor in Bioengineering at the University of Washington/ Seattle in 1991, with an Adjunct appointment in Physics. She launched a new program in Molecular Bioengineering, and was later promoted to Associate (1997) and Full Professor (2002). She was the Founding Director of the Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Washington (1997-2003), and moved to the ETH in 2004.

Her work has been internationally recognized by multiple awards (including Otto‐Hahn Medal; NIH FIRST Award; Philip Morris Foundation Research Award; Julius Springer Prize 2006 for Applied Physics; ERC Advanced Grant (2008), major lectureships (including the Lacey Lectureship at CalTech (2007), the Timoshenko Lectures at Stanford University (2011), the International Solvay Chair in Chemistry Brussels (2012), an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Tampere Finland (2012), and services for International Organizations (US Representative on the Council of Scientists of the Human Frontier Science Program), as well as jury duties for the European Research Council, the British Marshall Fund, the Humboldt Foundation, the National Research Council (USA); NASA, NIH, NSF, DOE and the German Government (BMBF). She was also a member of the Gordon Research Conferences Selection and Scheduling Committee and of the PCAST subpanel that finalized the National Nanotech Initiative (White House). She currently serves on several scientific advisory boards, including the Wyss Institute at Harvard, the Max-Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces (Golm), the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (Biopolis Singapore), the Nano‐Initiative‐Munich (DFG Excellence Cluster), CeNIDE Duisburg‐Essen, and is a Member of the Hochschulrat (Board of Regents) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.