Prof. Dr. Thomas Riffelmacher - Curriculum Vitae
Education and Professional Career
since 2025: W2-professorship for Cardio-Oncology, Dept. III for Internal Medicine, University of Cologne
2022 – 2025: Director, Immunometabolism Core Facility, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, San Diego, USA
2021 – 2025 Junior Faculty, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, San Diego, USA
2022: MicroMBA Program, University of San Diego, UCSD Rady School of Management, USA
2018 – 2021: Sir Henry Wellcome post-doctoral fellow, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, San Diego, USA
2013 – 2019: Ph.D. in Medical Science at the University of Oxford, WIMM + Kennedy Institutes, Oxford, UK
2011 – 2013: M.Sc. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology at LMU Munich, Germany
2007 – 2011: B.Sc. in Chemistry and Biochemistry at LMU Munich, Germany
Awards, Distinctions and Scientific Activities
2024: CD1-MR1 Early- to Mid-career Researcher Award; Speaker and Award, Hobart, Tasmania
2024: SPARK Award Recipient, Tully and Rickey Foundation
2023: Research feature in “Immune Matters”, Fall 2023 issue
2023: Best oral presentation Award, LJIR, Lake Arrowhead, CA, USA
2021: Young Investigator Award, the American Association of Immunology
2019: Winner, SPARK Award for Innovations in Immunology
2018: Winner, RDM Graduate Prize, University of Oxford and invited speaker; RDM symposium
2017: KEYSTONE Young Researcher Award, Travel stipend and oral presentation, Keystone, USA
2016: Speaker and travel Award, Gordon Research Conference, Ventura, CA, USA
2013: “TOP 10 Students” Award and full reimbursement of study fees for LMU Munich