Prof. Dr. Christian Wolfrum
Prof. Dr. Christian Wolfrum
VP Research
Additional information
Christian Wolfrum has been Full Professor of the Institute of Food Nutrition and Health at the ETH Zurich since January 2017.
Christian was born on July 17, 1972 in Bonn, Germany and studied Chemistry at the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany. After his graduation, he spent six years as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Markus Stoffel at the Rockefeller University in New York, USA. In 2007 he moved to the ETH Zurich and in 2008 he was appointed Assistant Professor for Obesity Research. His research focuses on elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying the altered adipocyte differentiation and maturation associated with obesity and other metabolic disorders. Christian Wolfrum received several honors, including the H.P. Kaufmann Award (2000), the Young Investigators Award by the EFSTL (2004), the Starting Independent Researcher Grant from the ERC (2008) and the Rössler Award (2014).
Since 2023 he is Vice President for Research and a member of the Executive Board at ETH Zurich.
Research
2010/04 - present | Associate Professor for Translational Nutritional Biology
2008/06 - 2010/03 | Assistant Professor for Obesity Research
2007/02 - present | Group leader position at the Competence Centre for Systems Physiology of Metabolic Disorders (CC-SPMD). Adipocyte development and the progression of metabolic disorders
2000/11 - 2006/07 | Postdoctoral Research - Rockefeller University, NYC, USA. Signalling cascades regulating lipid metabolism
2000/03 - 2000/10 | Postdoctoral Research - Department of Biochemistry, University of Münster, Germany. Ligand activated nuclear receptors and intracellular lipid transport
1997/06 - 2000/02 | Ph.D.-Thesis Research - Department of Biochemistry, University of Münster, Germany. Ligand activated nuclear receptors and intracellular lipid transport
1996/07 - 1997/05 | Diploma Thesis Research – Department of Biochemistry, University of Münster, Germany and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA. Lipid protein interaction, cytosolic and nuclear lipid transport
Awards
ERC Starting Independant Researcher Grant from 2008/07
Young Investigators Award 2004 of the European Federation for the Science and Technology of Lipids
H.P. Kaufmann Award 2000 “For Young Scientists” of the German Society for Fat Science