Prof. Viola Vogel

ETH Zürich Prof. Dr. Viola Vogel Biologisch-Orientierte Materialwissens. HCI F 443 Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10 8093 Zürich Phone: +41 44 632 08 87 Fax: +41 44 632 10 73 E-Mail:

Dr. Viola Vogel is a Professor in the Department of Materials heading the Laboratory for Biologically Oriented Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich. After completing her graduate research at the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, she received her Ph. D. in Physics at Frankfurt University, followed by two years as postdoctoral fellow at the University of California Berkeley. As faculty member, she joined the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington in 1990 with an adjunct appointment in the Physics. She was the Founding Director of the Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Washington (‘97-‘03) prior to her move to Switzerland in 2004.

Her interdisciplinary research program centers in bionanotechnology where she deciphers engineering principles of biological nanosystems for the development of new technologies. Her interests range from physical sciences to medicine and include bottom-up molecular self-assembly, single molecule mechanics, how cells sense and respond to force, bacterial adhesion, biominerals, biomaterials and tissue engineering.

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