Prof. Dr. Renato Zenobi

Laboratorium für Organische Chemie
HCI E 329
Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10
8093 Zürich
Tel: +41 44 632 43 76
Fax: +41 44 632 12 92
E-Mail: zenobi@org.chem.ethz.ch
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Curriculum vitae

Renato Zenobi is Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Organic Chemistry Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. He was also one of the founders and directors of the center of excellence in analytical chemistry (CEAC, 1995 - 2007) at the ETH Zurich. Renato Zenobi was born in Zurich in 1961. He received a M.S. degree from the ETH Zurich in 1986, and a Ph.D. at Stanford University in the USA in 1990, followed by two postdoctoral appointments at the University of Pittsburgh (1990 - 1991) and at the University of Michigan (1991). Renato Zenobi returned to Switzerland in 1992 as a Werner Fellow at the EPFL, Lausanne, where he established his own research group. He became assistant professor at the ETH in 1995, was promoted to associate professor in 1997, and to full professor in 2000. He was chairman of the Organic Chemistry Laboratory in 2002-2003, served as the president of ETH’s university assembly (Hochschulversammlung, HV) from 2006 – 2008, and of the lecturer’s conference (Konferenz des Lehrkörpers, KdL) at ETH Zurich 2006 - 2010. Zenobi was a visiting professor at the Barnett Institute (Boston) in 2004 and 2005, and at the Institut Curie (Paris) in 2010. In 2010 he was appointed Associate Editor of Analytical Chemistry (American Chemical Society).

Zenobi’s research areas include laser-based analytical chemistry, electrospray and laser-assisted mass spectrometry, laser-surface interactions, and near-field optical microscopy and spectroscopy. He has made important contributions to the understanding of the ion formation mechanism in matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry, to ambient ionization methods, and to the development of analytical tools for the nanoscale. Renato Zenobi has received many awards for his scientific work, including the Thomas Hirschfeld Award (1989), an Andrew Mellon Fellowship (1990), the Ruzicka Prize (1993), the Heinrich Emanuel Merck-Prize (1998), the Redwood Lectureship from the Royal Society of Chemistry (2005), the Michael Widmer Award (2006), a honorary Professorship at East China Institute of Technology (2007), the Schulich Graduate Lectureship (2009), a honorary membership of the Israel Chemical Society (2009), honorary professorships at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Changchun), at Hunan University, and at Changchun University of Chinese Medicine (2010), and the Mayent-Rothschild Fellowship (Institut Curie, Paris; 2010).