Prof. Dr. Dietmar Fischer - Curriculum Vitae
Education and professional career
since 07/2022: Director of the Center for Pharmacology, University Hospital Cologne
03/2021: Offer for W3-Professorship, University of Cologne (accepted)
09/2018 - 06/2022: Head of the Department of Cell Physiology, Ruhr-University Bochum
07/2017: Offer for W3-Professorship, Ruhr-University Bochum (accepted)
02/2014: Offer for W2-Professorship, Philipps-University of Marburg (declined)
05/2011: Offer for W2-Professorship, University of Würzburg (declined)
01/2011 - 08/2018: Head of Division of Experimental Neurology
01/2011: W2-Professor, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf 07/2010: Offer for W2-Professorship, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf (accepted)
07/2010: Offer for W2-Professorship, University of Regensburg (declined)
2004 - 2010: W1-Professorship, University of Ulm, Dept. Neurology (accepted)
2001 - 2004: Postdoctoral fellow, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
2000 - 2001: Postdoctoral fellow, Dept. of Experimental Ophthalmology, Westfalian-Wilhelms-University of Münster
05/2000: PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at Westfalian-Wilhelms-University Münster and Philipps-University Marburg (both Germany) (‘summa cum laude’)
1998 - 2001: Medical student, Westfalian-Wilhelms-University of Münster
1992 - 1997: Master’s degree in Pharmacy, Philipps-University Marburg, certification as a pharmacist (grade: ‘excellent’)
Professional Awards
10/2009: Award of the Deutsche Stiftung Querschnittlähmung
09/2008: Nomination for the Robert Koch und Ludwig Darmstädter-Young Investigator Award
10/2003: Scholarship of the Paralyzed Veterans of America
08/2002: Scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
08/2001: Scholarship of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
05/2001: Award for the best Ph.D. thesis of the Philipps-University Marburg
10/2000: Young Investigator Award (International Neurotrauma Society)
06/2000: First Place Grand Recipient of the MSD-Chibret-Millennium Award