Susanne Ulbrich

Research Area

Susanne Ulbrich is an expert on livestock metabolism, focusing on relationships that affect fertility and reproduction. Her new, ultra-modern research methods have brought her an international reputation. Susanne Ulbrich’s professorship is an important element in the World Food strategy of the Department of Environmental Systems Science. She will also play a key role in the Agrovet-Strickhof project that ETH Zurich plans together with the University of Zurich and the Canton of Zurich.

Curriculum Vitae

Susanne Ulbrich has been Full Professor of Animal Physiology at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences since September 2013. She was born in Germany in 1975.

Susanne Ulbrich studied Agricultural Sciences with a focus on Animal Sciences at the Technical University Munich (TUM), followed by postgraduate studies in Biotechnology. In 2005, she received her doctorate in physiology at the Science Center Weihenstephan of the TUM with the distinction "summa cum laude". She then took over the management of a research group at the TUM. Research stays have taken her to the University of Adelaide in Australia and the Universidad de Concepcion in Chillán, Chile.

Additional Information

Prof. Ulbrich is a member of the German Society of Endocrinology, the Society for the Study of Reproduction and the International Embryo Transfer Society, as well as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals.

2005: Graduation Award Bund der Freunde der TU München

2011: Research Award Dr.-Heinrich-Baur-Preis

2013: Professorial position at Georg-August-University Göttingen – offer declined

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