Hans-Georg Kräusslich

Hans-Georg Kräusslich studied medicine in Munich and earned his doctorate in 1985. He then went on to conduct postdoctoral research at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and, in 1989, established his own research group on HIV replication and transmission at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. In 1995, Kräusslich was appointed to the Heinrich Pette Institute in Hamburg, a Leibniz Association institute, where he served as director from 1996 to 1999. Since 2000, he has been Head of Virology and, since 2004, Director of the Center for Infectiology at Heidelberg University Hospital.

Hans-Georg Kräusslich has published over 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals and serves as chair and member of several scientific committees. He was one of the founding directors of the Marsilius College at Heidelberg University and coordinator of the Cluster of Excellence “Cellular Networks”; he is currently the spokesperson for a DFG Collaborative Research Center, Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Center for Infection Research, and, until September 30, 2023, Dean of the Heidelberg Faculty of Medicine. 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 Gold Medal from Charles University in Prague and the Mendel Medal from 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 Gold Medal from the Minister-President of the State of Baden-Württemberg.

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