Prof. em. Dr. Michael Kreuzer

Professor of Animal Nutrition, Universitaetstrasse 2, 8092 Zürich and AgroVet-Strickhof, Eschikon, Lindau; Tel: 0446325972/041523549164; Email: michael.kreuzer@usys.ethz.ch

Personal information
Date of birth:                        5 May1956

Nationality:                           German
Researcher unique identifiers: www.researcherid.com/rid/E-7697-2015
Url for web site:                     www.an.ias.ethz.ch/en

Education
1988                       Technical University Munich-Weihenstephan: Habilitation
1984                       Technical University Munich-Weihenstephan: Doctorate
1976 – 1981            Technical University Munich-Weihenstephan: study of Agricultural Science

Employment history including current positions
1994 – present  ETH Zurich: Professor of Animal Nutrition
1991 – 1994      Georg-August-University Göttingen: Professor of Science of Animal-Source Products
1984 – 1991      Technical University Munich-Weihenstephan, Institute of Nutrition Physiology: Research Assistant

Institutional responsibilities
2007 – 2012        ETH Zurich: Vice President of the North-South Centre
2004 – 2006        ETH Zurich: Dean of the Department of Agricultural and Food Science and Study Delegate
2003 – present    Contact person for students of University of Zurich taking a Minor at ETH Zurich
2002 – present    Delegate of ETH Zurich in the executive board of AgroVet-Strickhof (www.agrovet-strickhof.ch/en); from 2014;
                          before: delegate of the ETH Research stations

Teaching activities (own courses and course participation)
BSc level              World Food System, Grundlagen Tierernährung, Angewandte Tierernährung, Qualität   tierischer Produkte
MSc level              Ruminant Science (HS), Ruminant Science (FS), Forum Livestock in the World Food System, Nischen in der Nutztierhaltung, Fleischtechnologie,
                           Interdisziplinäre Projektarbeit, Training course in Research Groups

Memberships in panels, boards, etc., and individual scientific reviewing activities
2010 – 2018        Swiss Science delegate in the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (globalresearchalliance.org)
2006 – 2018        Editor of Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition (together with others)
2004 – 2006        Member of the board of the German Society of Nutrition Physiology
2003 – present    Secretary International Symposium on Energy and Protein Metabolism and Nutrition
Various years      Editorial Board Member of ‘Archives of Animal Nutrition’, ‘Journal of Animal and Feed Sciences’, 'International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition
                          Research', 'Journal of Applied Animal Research'
1985 – present    Reviewer for 59 different refereed international journals
 

Active memberships in scientific societies
1994 – present Member of the Swiss Association of Agricultural and Food Scientists (SVIAL)
1991 – present Member of German Society of Animal Breeding
1989 – present Member of German Society of Nutrition Physiology
 

Prizes, awards, fellowships, offers, honorary memberships
2006      Honorary Member of the Swiss Association of Agricultural and Food Scientists (SVIAL)
2001       University of Life Science, Vienna: Offer of the Chair of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science
1990      Förderpreis der Henneberg-Lehmann-Stiftung
1988      Thurn und Taxis Förderpreis