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 | 
