Prof. Dr. Susanne E. Ulbrich

Prof. Dr.  Susanne E. Ulbrich

Prof. Dr. Susanne E. Ulbrich

Full Professor at the Department of Environmental Systems Science

ETH Zürich

Professur für Tierphysiologie

LFW B 57.1

Universitätstrasse 2

8092 Zürich

Switzerland

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Research area

Susanne Ulbrich is an expert on livestock metabolism, focusing on relationships that affect fertility and reproduction. Her new, ultra-modern research methods have brought her an international reputation. Susanne Ulbrich’s professorship is an important element in the World Food strategy of the Department of Environmental Systems Science. She will also play a key role in the Agrovet-Strickhofcall_made project that ETH Zurich plans together with the University of Zurich and the Canton of Zurich.

Susanne Ulbrich has been Full Professor of Animal Physiology at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences since September 2013. She was born in Germany in 1975.

Susanne Ulbrich studied Agricultural Sciences with a focus on Animal Sciences at the Technical University Munich (TUM), followed by postgraduate studies in Biotechnology. In 2005, she received her doctorate in physiology at the Science Center Weihenstephan of the TUM with the distinction "summa cum laude". She then took over the management of a research group at the TUM. Research stays have taken her to the University of Adelaide in Australia and the Universidad de Concepcion in Chillán, Chile.

 

Education

2011 Habilitation, Physiology Weihenstephan,Technical University Munich, Germany
2005 Doctorate (summa cum laude), Physiology Weihenstephan, Technical University Munich, Germany
2002 Postgraduate Study Biotechnology, Technical University Munich, Germany
2011 Diploma, Agricultural Sciences, Technical University Munich, Germany


Professional History

2013 - date Full Professor of Animal Physiology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich
2006 - 2013 Research group leader, Physiology Weihenstephan, Technical University Munich, Germany


Fellowships and Awards

2013 Professorial position at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany – rejected
2011 Research Award Dr.-Heinrich-Baur Preis, Germany
2005 Graduation Award Bund der Freunde der TU München, Germany


Institutional Responsibility

2017 - date Study director, Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2015 - 2017 Head of the Institute of Agricultural Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2010 - 2013 Scientific coordination of the PhD-College ZIEL, Technical University Munich, Germany


Fields of Scientific Expertise

Animal Sciences, Physiology of Reproduction, Endocrinology, Epigenetics, Embryonic Diapause

Additional information

Prof. Ulbrich is a member of the German Society of Endocrinology, the Society for the Study of Reproduction and the International Embryo Transfer Society, as well as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals.

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