Education: 1981 School leaving examination 1981-1983 Civilian service Department of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital Göttingen 1983-1989 Academic studies Studies of human medicine at the Universities of Giessen and Freiburg i. Br. 1989 State Examination Career: 1989-1990 Internship: Core laboratory of the University Hospital Freiburg (head: Professor Dr. med. H. Wieland) 1990-1991 Internship: Institute of Clinical Chemistry at the University Hospital Großhadern, Munich (head: Professor Dr. med. D. Seidel) 1992 MD thesis: Untersuchungen zur Aussagekraft der Lipoproteindiagnostik bei koronarer Herzkrankheit. Methodenvergleich und Entwicklung diagnostischer Strategien. 1991-1997 Clinical associate and fellow in Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Chemistry at the University Hospital Freiburg 1997 Recognition as a Specialist in Laboratory Medicine and as a Clinical Chemist 1998 – 2002 Senior physician, department Laboratory Medicine at the University Hospital Freiburg 1999 Research fellow at the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology in the Children’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA (Professor Dr. N. Rifai) 2000 Habilitation in Laboratory Medicine: Die klinisch-chemische Diagnostik von Lipoproteinen – Methoden zur Erfassung der Atherogenität 06/2002 – 11/2010 Full professor (C3) and Head of the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine of the University Hospital Greifswald 2003 – 2014 Associate medical director of the University Hospital Greifswald 2006 – 2011 Management board member of Instand e.V. 2006 – 02/2015 Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Laboratory Medicine (J Lab Med) 2007 – 2011 Head of the Center of Knowledge Interchange (CKI) since 2007 Managing partner of Baltic Analytics GmbH 2010 Reputation to the W3-Professorship for Clinical Chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (declined September 25, 2010) since 2010 Chairman of INQUAM e.V. (Institute for Quality Management in Medical Laboratories) 12/2010 – 04/2014 Full professor (W2) at the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IKCL) of the University Hospital Greifswald (UMG) since 2012 Chairman of section D1 (Quantitative Medical Laboratory Investigations) of the German Medical Association (BAEK) since 2012 Spokesman of the Clinical Research Platform of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) since 2013 Spokesman of the section biomaterial and laboratory analyses and member of the scientific technical project group of the biorepository in the National Cohort 2014-2017 Member of the Clinical Study Group Steering Committee of the DZHK since 2014 Full professor (W3) at the IKCL of the UMG since 01/2015 Chairman of the advisory board of the Quality Assurance in Medical Laboratory Investigations of the BAEK since 09/2015 Member of the Use and Access Committee of the DZHK 2017 President elect of the DGKL 2018 – 2021 President of the DGKL 2018 – 2021 Member of the scientific advisory board of the Health and Nutrition Study in Germany (Robert Koch-Institut (RKI) and Max Rubner-Institut) since 2018 Member of the section „Kidney disease and –physiology“ and „Diabetes/Metabolic disease“ 2020 Member of the working group Laboratory Diagnostic of the RKI since 2020 Member of the CODEX-Lenkungsausschuss of the Netzwerk Universitätsmedizin (NUM) since 2020 Member of the „Fach- und organspezifischen Arbeitsgruppe (FOSA) Laboratoriumsmedizin“ of NAPKON since 2021 Deputy speaker of FOSA Laboratoriumsmedizin (NUM) 2022 – 2023 Past president of the DGKL since 07/2023 Speaker advisory board NUM Publications: > 625 peer reviewed publications, cumulative IF: 3615, h-index: 80