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Ruben Sommaruga
Photo of Ruben Sommaruga (Copyright: L. Sommaruga)
Born	(1962-04-27) 27 April 1962 (age 62) Montevideo, Uruguay
Alma mater	University of the Republic of Uruguay (BSc) University of Innsbruck (MSc and PhD)
Awards	Baldi Memorial Award, SIL (2024) Professional Excellence in Limnetic Ecology Prize (2000)
Scientific career
Fields	Ecology Limnology
Institutions	University of Innsbruck

Ruben Sommaruga is a researcher in the field of Aquatic Ecology. He is Full Professor at the Department of Ecology from the University of Innsbruck, Austria where between 2012 and 2020, also acted as its director. Ruben Sommaruga grew up in Montevideo where he received his early education. He attended the University of the Republic in Uruguay where he received his B.Sc. in Biological Oceanography. He then went to Austria for higher studies and received a M.Sc. degree in Zoology and a Doctoral degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Innsbruck in 1993 with majors in Limnology and Microbial Ecology. Afterwards, he was a postdoctoral investigator at the Department of Ecological Sciences, University of Chile, at the High Mountain Research Center, Spain, the Istituto di idrobiologia Pallanza, Italy and at the former Institute of Zoology and Limnology of the University of Innsbruck. In 1998, he got his habilitation in Limnology at the University of Innsbruck. He has been a visiting scholar at different institutes including the biological research laboratory of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the EAWAG Hydrobiology Lab at Kastanienbaum, and the National Center of Polar and Ocean Research, Goa, among others, as well as participated in several expeditions like to Greenland.