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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Lothar H. Wieler
Curriculum Vitae
| Academic Career | |
| Since March 2015 | President of the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany |
| 1998 – 2015 | Full professor and Director of the Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| 2003 – 2009 | Dean of research in the Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| 1990 – 1998 | Institute of Hygiene and Infectious Diseases of Animals, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany |
| 1997 | Board certification for Microbiology |
| 1996 | Habilitation (field: Infectious Diseases and Hygiene of Animals; Institute of Hygiene and Infectious Diseases of Animals, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany) |
| 1988 | Doctoral thesis (Institute of Medical Microbiology, Infection and Epidemic Diseases, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany) |
| 1987 – 1990 | Department of Pathology, Ulm University, Germany |
| 1986 – 1987 | Military Service in the Bundeswehr |
| 1980 – 1985 | Study of Veterinary Medicine (Freie Universität Berlin and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany) |
| Roles in academic committees and memberships | |
| Since December 2022 | Lancet Commission on 21st Century Global Health Threats |
| Since August 2021 | Senator of the Leopoldina Section Global Health |
| Since November 2020 | Member of the One Health Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) |
| Since September 2020 | Chair of the International Health Regulation Review Committee (IHR-RC) |
| Since June 2019 | Co-Chair of the Working Group on Influenza Preparedness and Response of the World Health Organization (WHO) |
| Since May 2018 | Member of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards (STAG-IH) of the World Health Organisation (WHO) |
| Since February 2018 | Member of the European Advisory Committee on Health Research (EACHR) of WHO/Europe |
| Since October 2017 | Member of the IANPHI (International Association of National Public Health Institutes) Executive Board |
| Since May 2016 | Member of the scientific advisory board of the Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology |
| Since January 2016 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R) |
| Since November 2015 | Member (guest) of the scientific advisory boards of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) and the Research Center Borstel |
| Since October 2015 | Member of the Berlin Network/Centre for Bioinformatics (BNZB) |
| Since June 2015 | Vice-board spokesman for the project consortium “InfectControl 2020” |
| Since September 2010 | Elected Member of the Leopoldina, Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| Former roles in academic committees and memberships | |
| 2016 – 2021 | Senator of the Leopoldina section Veterinary Medicine |
| 2012 – 2015 | Member of the Protection Commission at the German Federal Ministry of the Interior |
| 2012 – 2014 | Chair of the specialist group "Zoonosis" of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie (DGHM, German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology) |
| 2011 – 2020 | Member of the military medical advisory board at the German Federal Ministry of Defence |
| 2011 – 2015 | Chair of the scientific advisory committee at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (federal research institute for animal health), Insel Riems, Germany |
| 2010 – 2016 | Speaker of the International DFG Research Training Group (IRTG) 1673 “Functional Molecular Infection Epidemiology” |
| 2009 – 2014 | Board member of the Deutsche Veterinärmedizinische Gesellschaft (DVG, German Veterinary Medical Society) |
| 2009 – 2014 | Internal advisory board member of the German Research Platform for Zoonoses |
| 2008 – 2016 | Elected member of the DFG review board 207 |
| 2008 – 2014 | Vice-spokesman for the Zoonoses and infection research working group at the "Technology, Methods, and Infrastructure for Networked Medical Research" (TMF) |
| 2007 - 2015 | Coordinator of the BMBF network on zoonotic diseases "Food-borne zoonotic infections in humans" (FBI-Zoo) |
| 2007 - 2014 | Chair of the section "Infection disease" the of the German Veterinary Society |
| 2002 - 2004 | Chair of the working group "Bacteriology and Mycology" the of the German Veterinary Society |
| Research stays abroad | |
| 2012 | Sabbatical at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge; Prof. Dr. Gordon Dougan, United Kingdom |
| 1996 | Volunteer research associate (NIH scholarship) at the University of Maryland at Baltimore, USA; School of Medicine, Center for Vaccine Development; Prof. Dr. James B. Kaper (NIH Grant AI 21657) |
| Awards | |
| 2022 | Honorary Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (Dr. med. vet. h.c.) by the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich |
| 2022 | Golden badge of honour of the Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2021 | Research Professor for Experimental Infectious Medicine of the Jürgen Manchot Foundation |
| 2021 | Honorary Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (Dr. med. vet. h.c.) by the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover |
| 2021 | Ferdinand Cohn medal of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology |
| 2021 | AVES Honorary Diplomate by the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society |
| 2021 | Honorary Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (Dr. med. vet. h.c.) by the Vetsuisse-Faculty of the University of Zurich |
| 2021 | Albrecht-von-Graefe-medal of the Berliner Medizinische Gesellschaft |
| 2016 | Walter Frei-Award, Vetsuisse faculty, University of Zurich |
| 2007 | Main Award of the German Society of Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM) |
| 1997 | Young Scientist Award of the German Veterinary Society (DVG) |
| Editorial Boards | |
| Since 2009 | Associate Editor of "Gut Pathogens" |
| 2003 - 2018 | Editor of the "Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift" (BMTW) |