Professional Career

• 1973 - 1983: Diploma and dissertation in Physics, state examination and dissertation in medicine, habilitation, assistant Cologne University
• 1983 - 1988: Head of department at the Medical Institute for Environmental Hygiene Düsseldorf
• 1988 - 1995: Department for Occupational Safety and Environmental Medicine, Wuppertal University
• 1990 - 2011: Director of the Institute for Epidemiology at the Helmholtz Center Munich
• 1995 - 2011: Department for Epidemiology, LMU Munich
• Research areas: Epidemiology of complex diseases (cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer, diabetes, asthma/allergies), genetic epidemiology, ebvironmental epidemiology, Biobanks

Functions and Research Institutes, Advisory Boards, and Initiatives

• Scientific societies: DAE 1993-97 Speaker, GMDS 2003-04 President, DGHU 1992-2001 board member
• Reviewer for DFG, EU, Volkswagen foundation, science council, scientific organizations in the UK, France, Luxemburg, Qatar, Norway, Spain, Italy
• Cooperation in committees: WHO (air pollution, Radon), MAK-Commission, SSK, BMU/UBA (Humanbiomonitoring, Diesel), BBMRI, OECD (Biobanks), Chairman of the board of directors at the Institute for Enivornmental Medical Research Forschung (IUF) Düsseldorf, consultant for the board of directors of NAKO
• Honors: 1984 Ludwig Heilmeyer medal in silver, 2005 Bavarian state medal for environment and health
• 803 publcations (medline last updated: 21.4.2015), H-Index: 86

Comprehensive CV: see Wikipedia