Ruth Birner-Gruenberger is currently Full Professor at TU Wien and Associate Professor at Medical University of Graz, Austria. She studied Chemistry and Applied Biology in Graz (TU Graz), and Melbourne (RMIT), Australia, and received a PhD from TU Graz in 2002 in the field of phospholipid metabolism. She employs proteomics and metabolomics for the study of lipolysis and the interplay of metabolic pathways and organelles in the regulation of fatty acid and energy homeostasis in health, cancer, and lipid-associated diseases.