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    Viola Vogel, Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. (she/her/hers)

    Professor
    Laboratory of Applied Mechanobiology, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich
    Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Viola Vogel is a Professor in the Department of Health Science and Technology at ETH Zürich, Switzerland where she heads the Laboratory of Applied Mechanobiology. Prof. Vogel uses nanotechnology tools to gain insights into how cells and micro-tissues use mechanical forces to sense and remodel their native environments. This includes research into the mechanisms by which blood cells in blood clot, together with fibroblasts, promote wound healing. The translational relevance of Prof. Vogel’s research is extensive, including but not limited to regenerative processes and tissue engineering.

    Based on her research conducted at the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Viola Vogel obtained her diploma in physics and zoology and her PhD in physics from the Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, before she became a Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. She was the Founding Director of the Centre of Nanotechnology at the University of Washington in 1997, and later founded the Institute for Translational Medicine at ETH Zürich in 2017. She was also Chair of the Department of Health Sciences and Technology from 2018 to 2020.

    Prof. Vogel has (co-)authored over 240 journal articles and her work is highly cited, with a H-index of 85. She has received numerous prestigious research awards and significant research funding, including an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. She is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW), the US-based National Academy of Sciences (NAS), as well as the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). She serves on many international scientific advisory boards and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research Conference Organisation.

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