Prof. Dr. Andreas Diefenbach

Since 2021
Scientific Director, Labor Berlin

Since 2018
Professor, Freie Universität Berlin, Department Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy

Since 2016
Professor (W3) and Director/Chair, Institute of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Charité – University Medical Centre Berlin, Laboratory Head, Developmental and Mucosal Immunology, German Rheumatism Research Centre, A Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Director, Fachbereich Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Labor Berlin

2013 – 2016
Professor (W3) and Director/Chair, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz

2007 – 2013
Professor (W3, tenured), Mikrobiologie & Molekulare Infektionsimmunologie, University of Freiburg, Medical Centre

2007 – 2010
Adjunct Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology, New York University MedicalCenter, New York, USA

2003 – 2007
Irene Diamond Assistant Professor of Immunology (tenure track), Assistant Professor of Pathology, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York, USA

1999 – 2003
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA

1996 – 1998
Resident, Institut für Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie & Hygiene, University of Erlangen

2012
Board Exam (Facharztprüfung), Microbiology, Virology and Epidemiology of Infections (Mikrobiologie, Virologie und Infektionsepidemiologie)

1997
Dr. med. (summa cum laude), Microbiology/Immunology, U Erlangen

1996
M.D., Medicine, University of Erlangen

1989 – 1996
Medical School, University Of Erlangen, Germany and Imperial College, London, UK

Since 2022
Spokesperson, The Berlin Centre for the Biology of Health

Since 2017
Vertrauensdozent, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

2016 – 2022
Spokesperson, DFG Priority Program 1937 “Innate Lymphoid Cells”

2015 – 2016
Speaker, Research Centre Immunology, Universitätsmedizin Mainz

2014 – 2016
Steering Committee, International PhD Program of Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) and University of Mainz

Amercian Association of Immunologists, German Association of Immunologists, German Society of Hygiene and Microbiology, Society of Natural Immunity

2022
ERC Advanced Grant

2019-2022
Visiting Professor, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

2018
Elected Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

since 2017
Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher

2013
ERC Starting/Consolidator Grant

2010
Main Scientific Prize, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mikrobiologie und Hygiene

2009
Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences USA & Alexander-Von-Humboldt-Stiftung

2004
Whitehead Fellowship for Junior Faculty in Biomedical Sciences

2003
Irene Diamond Professorship for Immunology

2000
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Physicians, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

1999
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft