Ruedi Aebersold, PhD
Ruedi Aebersold is a Swiss and Canadian scientist. He trained at the Biocenter, University of Basel, Switzerland and completed his education at Caltech. He was on the faculties of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and the University of Washington in Seattle and co-founded, with Lee Hood and Alan Aderem, the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, a world first. In 2004 he was recruited to ETH Zürich where he established the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology. He has co-founded several companies and holds multiple public service appointments. Ruedi was awarded an honorary doctorate of the University of Lund, Sweden and the work of the group was recognized with numerous prizes and awards including the Biemann medal of ASMS, the Paracelsus prize of the Swiss Chemical Society, the Otto Naegeli Prize, the Thomson medal of IMSF and the HUPO achievement award. In 2020, Ruedi received the Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize, the most prestigious science award in Switzerland, for his pioneering work in the field of proteomics and systems biology. He has been emeritus Professor at ETH Zurich since 2021.
The research focus of the Aebersold group was the proteome. The group has pioneered several widely used techniques and generated a range of open access/open source software and statistical tools that have contributed to making proteomic research results more transparent, reproducible and accurate. In his group, these techniques have been applied to a wide range of projects in basic and translational research. His publications have been cited more than 125,000 times (as of June 2022) and reached an h-factor of 171 in the Web of Science index, and more than 189,000 times with an h-factor 210 in Google Scholar.