Ralf Metzler (born 13 October 1968) is a physicist that focuses on nonequilibrium statistical physics and anomalous stochastic processes, with applications to biological and soft matter systems.^[1][2] He currently is chair professor for theoretical physics at the University of Potsdam and is an Alexander von Humboldt Polish Honorary Research Fellow.^[3]

Metzler holds a Diploma (magna cum laude) degree in physics (1994) and a PhD (summa cum laude, 1996) from the University of Ulm. He performed postdoctoral research at Tel Aviv University with Joseph Klafter and Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Mehran Kardar.^[4]

Metzler became an assistant professor at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA) in Copenhagen in 2002. He later spend a period of time in Canada, where he was appointed Canada Research Chair in Biological Physics at the University of Ottawa and he moved to the Technical University of Munich as a professor. Since 2011, he is chair professor for theoretical physics at the University of Potsdam and is an Alexander von Humboldt Polish Honorary Research Fellow.^[5][6]

• Feodor Lynen Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• Amos de Shalit Fellow, Minerva Foundation
• Emmy Noether Fellow, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• Canada Research Chair in Biological Physics
• Finland Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro) ^[7]
• Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society
• Sigma Phi Prize^[8]

• Ralf Metzler publications indexed by Google Scholar