Ben Schuler employs and develops single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy methods for the investigation of protein structure, folding, and dynamics, with a particular focus on disordered and non-native conformations. He studied Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Regensburg, Germany, and at the University of Kent, UK. Ben received his PhD in Physical Biochemistry from the University of Regensburg in 1998 and did his postdoctoral research in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA. Ben Schuler then headed an independent research group at the University of Potsdam in Germany supported by the Emmy Noether Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In 2004, he joined the faculty of the University of Zurich, where he is currently Professor of Molecular Biophysics.