PD Dr. Hormos C Dafsari - Curriculum Vitae
Education and professional career
Since 2026: CAP Group Leader at the CMMC
Since 2026: Consultant (Dept. Pediatrics, University Hospital Cologne)
Since 2025: Principal Investigator (Dept. Pediatrics, University of Cologne)
2024: Habilitation (University of Cologne)
2023-2025: Visiting Senior Lecturer, Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics (King's College London)
2023-2024: Honorary Fellow (Dept. Immunology, Great Ormond Street Hospital London)
2020-2024: Honorary Clinical Research Fellow (Dept. Neurosciences, Evelina Children’s Hospital London)
Since 2020: Guest scientist (Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing)
2019-2020: Postdoc (Dept. Pediatrics, University of Cologne)
2017-26: Resident & Pediatric Neurology Fellow (Dept. Pediatrics, University Hospital Cologne)
2016: Dissertation, magna cum laude (Dept. Neurology, University of Cologne)
2015-17: Resident (Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, LMU Munich)
Awards, distinctions and professional activities
2026: 2nd Felix-Jerusalem-Prize of the German Society for Muscle Diseases (DGM)
2025: Research prize of the German Pediatric Neurology Society (GNP)
2024: Award for best lecture, German Pediatric Neurology Society Conference
2022: Outstanding Abstract Award, European Pediatric Neurology Society Conference
2020-2023: Cologne Clinician Scientist Programme (University of Cologne)
2019-2020: Gerok fellow (University of Cologne)
Memberships: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie, Gesellschaft für Neuropädiatrie, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Muskelkranke, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Klinische Neurophysiologie