Prof. Dr. Hyun-Dong Chang

Since 2020
Full professor (W3), Chair of Cytometry, Institute of Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin

Since 2017
Group leader of the Schwiete Laboratory for Microbiota and Inflammation

Since 2012
Scientific leader of the Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Core Facility (FCCF)

2007 – 2017
Staff scientist in the Cell Biology group

2005 – 2007
Postdoctoral fellow of the Graduiertenkolleg 1121, „Genetic and immunological determinants of pathogen-host interaction“

2017
Habilitation at the Humboldt Universität Berlin: Adaptation of T helper lymphocytes to chronic inflammation, mentors: Prof. Dr. Andreas Radbruch and Prof. Dr. Richard Lucius

2005
Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in the group of Prof. Andreas Radbruch at the DRFZ Berlin, „Regulation of the expression of the cytokine interleukin-10 in T helper lymphocytes“, (summa cum laude)

1999
visiting scholar, Cancer Center, University of California San Diego (UCSD)

1998 – 1999
Diploma thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Maurizio Zanetti at the Cancer Center, University of California San Diego (UCSD), “Studies on the mechanism of somatic transgene immunization: the uptake of plasmid DNA by B lymphocytes”

1996 – 1997
Exchange student, University of California San Diego (UCSD)

1992 – 1999
Study of Biology at the Freie Universität Berlin (final grade: very good)

1992
International Baccalaureate at the Seoul Foreign School, Seoul, Korea, (Final grade: 1.0)

Since 2024
Chair of Membership Services Committee of ISAC

2024
Member of the program committee for CYTO2025, the annual meeting of ISAC

Since 2021
Council member of HCDM (Human Cell Differentiation Molecules)

Since 2019
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Immunology

Since 2015
Organisation of Satellite Symposia „Advanced Flow Cytometry“ at the European Congress of Immunology (ECI)

2014 – 2016
President of the German Society for Cytometry (DGfZ)

2015, 2016
Organisation of the 25th and 26th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Cytometry

Since 2015
Faculty member of the Autum School for Immunology and Translational School for Immunology of the German Society for Immunology

2010 – 2014
Council of the German Society for Cytometry

2016, 2017, 2018
Member of the program committee for CYTO

2013
Member of the organization team of the EMBO course “Intravital Microscopy, Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting”

Since 2009
Organisation committee of the „Spring School for Immunology“ of the German Society for Immunology

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie (DGfI), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zytometrie (DGfZ), International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC)

2011
Winner of the Idea competition of the Rheumastiftung, „Ist Rheuma heilbar?“

1996
Fellowship of the Education Abroad Program