Rolf Gruetter Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Until 2019 he was the director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging.

Gruetter is a member of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (senior fellow since 2014), the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (fellow since 2011), and the International Society for Neurochemistry.

Since 2005 he has been full professor at EPFL and the head of the Laboratory for functional and metabolic imaging at the School of Basic Sciences.

He is the recipient of the 1999 Young Investigator Award Plenary Lecture by the International Society for Neurochemistry.

Gruetter studied as an undergraduate experimental physics at ETH Zurich, before joining the laboratory of Kurt Wüthrich as a PhD student. He graduated in 1990 with a thesis on “Methodische Aspekte der in vivo Phosphor-Kernspinresonanz-Spektroskopie in der pädiatrischen Diagnostik” that was next to Wüthrich also supervised by Richard R. Ernst. In 1992, he went to work with Robert G. Shulman at Yale University as postdoctoral fellow. Following postdoctoral studies with Chris Boesch at the University of Bern, he became in 1994 first an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, and was promoted in 2003 to the position of a full professor.

Rolf Gruetter (born 1962 in Geneva) is a Swiss physicist and neurobiologist specialized in magnetic resonance, biomedical imaging and brain metabolism. He is a professor of physics at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the head of the Laboratory Functional and Metabolic Imaging at the School of Basic Sciences.