Professor of Mediiciine Saarland University Diirector Department of Internal Medicine IV – Renal and Hypertensive Diseases – Saarland University Medical Centre Spokesman Transplant Centre Saarland University Medical Centre Kirrberger Straße 100 66421 Homburg/Saar Germany Website: https://www.uniklinikumsaarland. de/de/einrichtungen/kliniken_institute/medizinische_kliniken/innere_medizin_iv/ SFB-TRR219 ”Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Complications in Chronic Kidney Disease” Supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) – Project-ID 322900939 https://www.sfb-trr219.de/ -2- Academiic Appoiinttmentts 1988 – 1990 Research Fellow at the Department of Nephrology, University Medical Centre, Ljubljana (Slovenia) 1990 – 1998 Research Fellow at the Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Ruperto-Carola University, Heidelberg (Germany) 1996 Research Fellow at the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (USA) 1997 Faculty Rank in Internal Medicine 1998 – 1999 Assistant Professor (Internal Medicine) at the Ruperto-Carola University, Heidelberg (Germany) 1999 – 2007 Associate Professor (Internal Medicine) at the Hannover Medical School, Hannover (Germany) Head of the Clinical Research Unit 2007 – Professor of Medicine at the Saarland University Director of the Department of Internal Medicine IV & Transplant Centre, Saarland University Medical Centre, Homburg/Saar (Germany) 2018 – Spokesman / Vice Spokesman Sonderforschungsbereich-Transregio (SFB-TRR219) – Aachen –Homburg/Saar German Research Foundation (DFG) Total Grant: ~25 Million Euro Academiic Achiievementts 2015 – Member of the CKDOPPS Steering Committee 2016 Chair of the Scientific Committee of the 53rd ERA-EDTA annual congress in Vienna 2016 – 2018 ERA-EDTA Ordinary Council Member 2017 – 2019 Chair of the Paper Selection Committee for the ERA-EDTA annual congress 2023 President of the 15th German Society of Nephrology (DGfN) meeting in Berlin 2018 – 2025 Renall Sciience Chaiir of the European Renal Association (ERA) Awards and Honors 1995 Nils Alwall Prize 2004 Bernd Tersteegen Prize 2005 Franz Volhard Prize 2015 Fellow of the European Renal Association (FERA) 2019 Honorary member of the Japanese Society of Nephrology (JSN)