Prof. Dr Christian Rüegg

* 1976, Swiss, Prof. Dr sc. nat.

Member of the ETH Board since June 2022 and rep­resentative of the research institutes.

Director of PSI since 2020.

Dual professorship at ETH Zurich/EPFL and professor at the University of Geneva.

Christian Rüegg studied Physics at ETH Zurich, obtaining his doctorate in 2005 at the Laboratory for Neutron Scattering at ETH Zurich and PSI. From 2005 to 2011, he worked at the London Centre for Nanotechnology of University College London (UCL) and Imperial College London. He was a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Assistant and Associate Professor at UCL. From 2011 to 2016, Christian Rüegg headed the PSI Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging in the Research Division Neutrons and Muons, and from 2017 to 2020, he was the head of this Research Division. He represents PSI on numerous international committees for large-scale research facilities and as part of important cantonal/national initiatives for the promotion of innovation, such as Switzerland Innovation.

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