President of the Academy
Hans-Georg Kräusslich studied medicine in Munich and received his doctorate in 1985. He then went to the State University of New York at Stony Brook as a postdoc and established his own group on the reproduction and spread of HIV at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg in 1989. In 1995 Kräusslich was appointed to the Heinrich Pette Institute in Hamburg, an institute of the Leibniz Association, where he was director from 1996 to 1999. He has been Head of Virology since 2000 and Director of the Centre for Infectiology at Heidelberg University Hospital since 2004.
Hans-Georg Kräusslich has published over 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is chairman and member of several scientific committees. Kräusslich was one of the founding directors of the Marsilius Kolleg at Heidelberg University and coordinator of the ‘Cellular Networks’ Cluster of Excellence; he is currently the spokesperson of a DFG Collaborative Research Centre, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the German Centre for Infection Research and, until 30 September, Dean of the Heidelberg Medical Faculty. Kräusslich is an elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the American Academy of Microbiology and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
He has received several scientific awards, including the Golden Medal of Charles University in Prague and the Mendel Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences. In 2021, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Charles University in Prague, and in 2022 he received the Staufer Medal in Gold from the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg.
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