Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr. Werner Seeger - Leopoldina
Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr. Werner Seeger - Leopoldina
Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr. Werner Seeger - Leopoldina
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
<strong>Curriculum</strong> <strong>Vitae</strong> <strong>Professor</strong> <strong>Dr</strong>. <strong>Werner</strong> <strong>Seeger</strong><br />
Name: <strong>Werner</strong> <strong>Seeger</strong><br />
Geboren : 6 November 1953<br />
Familienstand: married<br />
Academic and Professional Career<br />
since 2007 Director of the ‘Lung Development and Remodeling’, Chair at the Max-Planck<br />
Institute for Heart and Lung Research, W.G. Kerckhoff Institute, Bad Nauheim,<br />
Germany<br />
since 2006 Medical Executive Director of the University Hospital Giessen and Marburg (UKGM),<br />
Germany<br />
since 2000 Managing Director, Department of Medicine, University of Giessen School of<br />
Medicine, Germany<br />
since 1996 C 4-Professur für Innere Medizin/Pneumologie, Justus-Liebig University (JLU) Gießen,<br />
Germany<br />
1991 - 1996 Head, Clinical Research Group “Respiratory Failure”, University of Giessen School of<br />
Medicine, Germany<br />
1987 - 1991 Assistant <strong>Professor</strong> of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Giessen<br />
School of Medicine, Germany<br />
Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften <strong>Leopoldina</strong><br />
www.leopoldina.org<br />
1
1987 Habilitation at the JLU of Giessen, Germany<br />
1982 - 1987 Internship and Residency, Department of Medicine, JLU Giessen,<br />
Germany (Prof. Lasch)<br />
1980 Ph.D. at the University of Giessen, Germany<br />
1979 - 1982 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathological<br />
Biochemistry, JLU Giessen, Germany (Prof. Roká)<br />
1972 - 1979 Studies of Medicine at the Westfälische-Wilhelms University of Münster and at the<br />
JLU of Giessen, Germany<br />
Project coordination, Membership in collaborative research projects (Selection)<br />
since 2011 Chair of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL)<br />
since 2010 Chairman of the ‘LOEWE Center “Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center”<br />
(UGMLC)<br />
since 2006 Coordinator of the Excellence Cluster ‘CardioPulmonary System’ (ECCPS)<br />
2006 - 2009 Koordinator, 6. supporting program EU Project “Pulmotension“<br />
2002 - 2006 Koordinator, 5. supporting program EU Project “Disposition to Pulmonary<br />
Hypertension”<br />
1997 - 2009 Head, Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) SFB 547 “Cardio<br />
pulmonary Vascular System”<br />
Functions in Scientific Societies and Committees (Selection)<br />
since 2010 Associate Editor, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine<br />
since 2009 Spokesman of the German Department Chairs of Internal Medicine<br />
2007 - 2010 Chairman of the Medical Commission of the German Council of Science and<br />
Humanities (The Wissenschaftsrat)<br />
Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften <strong>Leopoldina</strong><br />
www.leopoldina.org<br />
2
since 2006 Member of the Health Research Council (Gesundheitsforschungsrat)<br />
2005 - 2006 President of the German Society of Internal Medicine<br />
2004 - 2009 Vicepresident German Interdisciplinary Association of Critical Care and Emergency<br />
Medicine (DIVI)<br />
2003 - 2009 Member, German Council of Science and Humanities (The Wissenschaftsrat)<br />
2002 - 2009 Member, Senate Committee “Clinical Research”, German Research Foundation (DFG)<br />
2002 Conference Chairman, 6th Congress of the German Interdisciplinary Association of<br />
Critical Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI)<br />
2001 - 2002 President, German Society for Pulmonary Medicine (DGP)<br />
2000 - 2003 Chairman, Study Section “Medicine”, German Research Foundation (DFG)<br />
1999 - 2001 President, German Society for Internal Critical Care Medicine (DGIIN)<br />
Honours and Awarded Memberships (Selection)<br />
2008 Robert-Pfleger Award<br />
1988 Theodor-Frerichs Award, German Society for Internal Medicine<br />
1987 Schunk-Award for Medicine, JLU Giessen<br />
Major Scientific Interests<br />
Forschungsschwerpunkte – Translationale Forschung bei Lungenerkrankungen<br />
Pulmonale Hypertonie<br />
Lungenfibrose<br />
Pneumonie und Sepsis<br />
Akute und chronische respiratorische Insuffizienz<br />
Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften <strong>Leopoldina</strong><br />
www.leopoldina.org<br />
3