© Tiss: Ruth Birner-Grünberger

Univ.Prof. Dr. Ruth Birner-Grünberger, opens an external URL in a new window was appointed as Professor of Multimodal Analytical Chemistry at TU Wien with effect from July 1, 2019. She is assigned to the Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, opens in new window (E164) of the Faculty of Technical Chemistry at TU Wien.

CV: Ruth Birner-Grünberger received her doctorate in "Phosphatidylethanolamine –a key lipid of yeast mitochondria, opens an external URL in a new window" in 2002 at the Graz University of Technology and obtained her Venia Docendi, thus qualifying her to teach in the field of Biochemistry in the year 2007. She became Associate Professor there in 2011 and Coordinator of the Omics Center Graz, opens an external URL in a new window in 2013. Between 2016 and 2018, she was a visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, at UC Berkeley, USA and at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. In 2019, she continued her academic career at the TU Wien.

Special roles at TU Wien: She has served as Chair of Faculty Council for the Faculty of Technical Chemistry since 2020. She is also a member of the Senate for the 2025–2028 term.

She is Head of the Research Unit of Instrumental and Imaging Analytical Chemistry (E164-01) and of the Research Group for Bioanalytics (E164-01-3) as well. Her research focuses on proteomes, in particular the lipid metabolism, as well as the application of mass spectrometry in this research area.

Publications of Ruth Birner-Grünberger in the Scopus, opens an external URL in a new window database and in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.