Prof. Dr. Thomas Benzing - Curriculum Vitae
Education and professional career
since 2020: Study Section of the German Research Foundation (DFG), “Fachkollegiat”
since 2019: President of the German Academic Nephrology UNI-DGfN, Council Member of the German Society of Nephrology, Berlin
since 2019: Deputy Chair of the Excellence Cluster CECAD, Cologne
since 2017: Speaker of the Clinical Research Unit KFO 329 of the DFG
since 2015: Vice Dean of Finances, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne
2011 – 2015: Coordinator of Systems Biology of Ageing Cologne (Sybacol), University of Cologne
since 2010: Acting Director of the Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC)
since 2007: Co-Coordinator of the Cologne Cluster of Excellence on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne
since 2007: Professor of Medicine (W3), University of Cologne; Director and Chairman Department II of Internal Medicine, University of Cologne
2006 – 007: Professor of Medicine (W3), University Hospital Freiburg
2003 – 2005: Attending Physician, Heisenberg Fellow of the DFG, University of Freiburg
2003: Board examination Internal Medicine and Nephrology
2002: Habilitation, Venia Legendi for Internal Medicine
2000 – 2002: Fellowship in Nephrology, University Hospital Freiburg
1998 – 2000: Research Fellow in Nephrology, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Research Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
1996 – 1998: Postdoctoral Training at the Institute for Cardiovascular Physiology, Frankfurt
1995 – 1996: Residency in Medicine, University Hospital Freiburg
1994: Promotion (MD thesis), University of Freiburg
1987 – 1994: Medicine, University of Freiburg
Awards, distinctions and professional activities (selection)
2022: Member of the Organizing Committee, 5th European Cilia Conference, Cologne
2022: Elected Chair, Joint Conference of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and CMMC on “Progress in Molecular Medicine”, Cologne
2020: Appointed Member, North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2018: Honorary Member, American Clinical and Climatological Association (ACCA)
2015: Elected Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)
2014: Elected Chair, 10th International Podocyte Meeting, Freiburg
2013: Elected Chair, 29th Ernst Klenk International Symposium on "Systems Approaches in Translational Medicine", Cologne, Germany
2010: Elected Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
since 2010: President, Scientific Advisory Board Foundation for Preventive Medicine
2008: Ernst Jung-Award for Medicine, Ernst-Jung Society Hamburg
2008: Elected Honorary Member, Ludwig-Heilmeyer Society
since 2007: Appointed Thesis Opponent, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
2006: Young Investigator Award of the American Society of Nephrology
2005: Franz-Volhard-Award of the German Society of Nephrology
2005: Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology
2003: Heisenberg Fellowship of the German Research Foundation