Prof. Dr. Hidde Ploegh

Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, United States

Scientific Career

Since 2016 Research group leader at Boston Children’s Hospital

2005 Joined the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1997 Joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School as the director of its graduate program in immunology

1992 Recruited to the Center for Cancer Research as a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1984 Junior group leader in the Institute for Genetics at the University of Cologne, Germany

1981 PhD at Harvard University and obtained his degree from Leiden University

Prof. Dr. Anca Dorhoi

Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald – Insel Riems, Germany

Scientific Career

Since 2017 Director of the Institute of Immunology at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), Greifswald-Isle of Riems
and Professor of Immunology at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Greifswald, Germany;
Speaker of the Working Group Immunology of Infection of the German Society for Immunology

2015 Postdoc + Minerva Group Leader at the Dept. of Immunology (head SHE Kaufmann), Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany

2004 studied veterinary medicine and obtained her doctoral degree from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Prof. Dr. Matthias Gunzer

Institute for Experimental Immunology and Imaging, Essen, Germany

Scientific Career

Since 2019 Head of the Department “Biospectroscopy”, Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences (ISAS), Dortmund, Germany

Since June 2011 W3 Professor and founding director of the Institute of Experimental Immunology and Imaging and the Imaging Center Essen (IMCES), University of Duisburg/Essen, University Hospital Essen, Germany

2007 – 2011 W2 (assistant) Professor for molecular Immunology and deputy head of the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, University of Magdeburg, Germany

2003 – 2007 Leader of the junior research group „Immunodynamics“, Helmholtz Centre for Infection research, HZI (formerly German Research Centre for Biotechnology, GBF), Braunschweig, Germany

1999 – 2002 Postdoc, University of Muenster, Dept. of Dermatology, Germany

Prof. Dr. Jens Rolff

Institute of Zoology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Scientific Career

Since 2012 Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Freie Universität Berlin

2006-2012 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield, UK

July 2003 – July 2006 NERC research fellow, University of Sheffield

July 2001 – July 2003 Marie-Curie Fellow, University of Sheffield

May 2000 -July 2001 DFG-research fellowship, TU Braunschweig, University of Sheffield

July – Dec 1999 DAAD-Postdoc-Grant, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College of London

1996 - 1999 Technische Universität Braunschweig Dissertation

1989 - 1995 Freie Universität Berlin, TU Braunschweig Biology (Diploma)