Frank Rühli

Frank Rühli studied Medicine at the University of Zurich. After graduation in 1997 he worked as an assistant at the Institute of Diagnostic Radiology, University-Hospital Zurich. In 2000 he was awarded an International Postgraduate Research Scholarship to undertake a PhD at the Biological Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy Research Unit, Anatomical Sciences, University of Adelaide (Australia), where in 2002/03 he held a full-time lectureship.

He worked as assistant, senior assistant and associate professor at the Institute of Anatomy / University of Zurich from 2003-2014. In 2007 he finished his habilitation (“DSc”) in the field of anatomy/histology. Between 2010 and 2014 he was Head of the Center of Evolutionary Medicine (ZEM) at the University of Zurich and was appointed Director of the newly established Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM) in 2014. In 2018 he received a diploma as an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) at the University of Zurich. In 2018 he was elected as Founding Chair (Full Professor of Evolutionary Medicine). He is a member of both the Science and the Medical Faculties at the University of Zurich.

Frank Rühli gained teaching and course coordinator experience in gross anatomy, histology, paleopathology, biomedical imaging and biological anthropology at multiple universities. He has supervised multiple PhD, BScHons, MD, DVM and DMD dissertations. He is currently head of the cross-sectional disciplines (Querschnittsfächer) at the Medical Faculty in Zurich.

He is Associated Editor, Editor and Editor–in-Chief of various peer-reviewed journals:

• Evolution, Medicine and Public Health
• Journal of Evolutionary Medicine
• Homo - Journal of Comparative Human Biology
• Journal of Biological and Clinical Anthropology - Anthropologischer Anzeiger
• Yearbook of Mummy Studies
• Swiss Review of Military and Disaster Medicine