Prof. Dr. Benjamin Schuler Biochemisches Institut, Universitat Zurich, Switzerland

Ben Schuler studied biochemistry in Regensburg (Germany) and Canterbury (UK), and received his PhD in physical biochemistry from Regensburg University. He did his postdoctoral research in biophysics at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD, USA) and then started a research group at Potsdam University (Germany) as an Emmy Noether-Fellow... read moreof the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. He joined the Biochemistry Institute at Zurich University in 2004 as Assistant Professor where he is working on the folding and misfolding of proteins, with a close combination of biochemical and spectroscopic methods, particularly single molecule fluorescence.