Professorial appointments
The professorial appointments team is your central office for all appointment procedures at the Faculty of Medicine. In addition, the team will provide you with advice and support even after the appointment of the professors.
Current professorial appointments as well as information on applications and reviews can be found in the job portal of the University of Cologne (Berufungsportal), where you can apply for the University of Cologne's vacancies for professorships (W3, W2, W1).
The general recruitment requirements for professorships in NRW can be found under § 36 of the Higher Education Act of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (§ 36 des Hochschulgesetzes des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen).
The specific requirements of the individual professorships can be found in the respective announcement text. The selection procedure is based on the appointment regulations of the University of Cologne (Berufungsordnung der Universität zu Köln),
Professorial appointment procedures at the Faculty of Medicine
Ongoing appointment procedures
| salary | title | date expiry of application period | date trial lecture | date decision Rector's office | date appointment offer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| professorships (W3) | |||||
| W3 | Computational and Systems Biology of Aging and Aging-associated disease | 04.04.2024 | 20.06.2024 | 17.12.2024 | |
| W3 | Familial tumor diseases | 19.09.2023 | 31.01. & 01.02.2024; 27.02.2024 | 04.06.2024 | 12.06.2024 |
| W3 | Genome sciences | 14.09.2021 | 27.01. & 28.01.2022 | 18.07.2023 | 22.08.2023 18.09.2023 |
| W3 | History and ethics of medicine | 16.04.2023 | 11.07. & 12.07.2023 | 05.12.2023 | 14.12.2023 21.05.2024 |
| W3 | Neuropathology | 29.12.2022 extended until 10.03.2023 | 23.05.2023 | 07.11.2023 | 15.11.2023 |
| W3 | Physiology | 24.06.2024 | 16.09. & 17.09.2024 | 04.02.2025 | |
| W3 | Psychosomatics and psychotherapy | 25.09.2023 | 14.12. & 15.12.2023 | 04.06.2024 | 13.06.2024 |
| professorships (W2) | |||||
| W2 | Computational and Systems Biology of Aging and Aging-associated disease | 04.04.2024 | 04.07.2024 | 17.12.2024 | |
| W2 | Dermato-Oncology | 15.09.2022 | 22.12.2022 (I) & 23.04.2024 (II) | 18.04.2023 (I) & 18.07.2024 (II) | 20.04.2023 09.05.2023 23.07.2024 |
| W2 | Associate Marga and Walter Boll Professorship in Experimetal Cardio-Oncology | 11.03.2024 | 13.05.2024 | 10.09.2024 | 30.09.2024 |
| W2 | Translational pediatric cardiology | 21.02.2024 | 07.05.2024 | 10.09.2024 | 23.09.2024 |
| W2 | Translational vascular surgery with focus on aortic diseases | 20.11.2024 |
Completed appointment procedures/newly appointed professors
2025
| salary | title | appointmet of | start |
|---|---|---|---|
| W3 | obstetrics and prenatal medicine | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Tanja Groten | 15.02.2025 |
2024
| salary | title | appointmet of | start |
|---|---|---|---|
| W2 | Stroke and neurorehabilitation | Dr. med. Lukas Jan Volz | 01.01.2024 |
| W2 | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Dr. nat. med. Jan Lars Rybniker | 15.04.2024 |
| W2 | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Dr. rer. nat. Roland Lutz Knorr | 15.06.2024 |
| W3 | Cardiac surgery | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Lenard Conradi | 01.08.2024 |
| W3 | Anaesthesiology | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Andrea Ulrike Steinbicker | 01.08.2024 |
| W3 | Gastroentrology and Hepatology | apl. Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Neumann-Haefelin | 01.09.2024 |
| W3 | Gynecology and Gynecological Oncology | apl. Prof. Dr. med. Florin-Andrei Taran | 15.11.2024 |
2023
| salary | title | appointmet of | start |
|---|---|---|---|
| W1 | Regulation of Cellular Identity in Embryonic Development, Homeostasis, and Disease | Dr. rer. nat. Leo Kurian | 01.02.2023 |
| W3 | Medical Sociology | Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. medic. Lena Ansmann | 01.02.2023 |
| W3 | Data Analytics in bioinformatics | Univ.-Prof. Katarzyna Bozek (Portugal), PhD | 01.04.2023 |
| W2 | Anästhesiologie und Operative Intensivmedizin tenure track (W2) | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Tobias Alexander Kammerer | 01.04.2023 |
| W3 | Preventive, regenerative and restorative dentistry, oral and maxillofacial medicine II | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. Anna Greta Barbe | 01.05.2023 |
| W2 | Cellular neuroscience/ cellular neurophysiology | Dr. med. Sabine Liebscher, PhD | 15.05.2023 |
| W2 | Oncological imaging | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Thorsten Persigehl | 01.06.2023 |
| W3 | Radiotherapy | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Emmanouil Fokas, PhD | 01.11.2023 |
| W2 | Neuroimmunology | apl. Prof. Dr. med. Dr. nat. med. Maria Adele Rüger | 01.12.2023 |
| W2 | Biostatistics/Medical Statistics | Jun.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Kathrin Möllenhoff | 01.12.2023 |
2022
| salary | title | appointmet of | start |
|---|---|---|---|
| W3 | Molecular immunology | apl. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hamid Kashkar | 01.01.2022 |
| W3 | Computational cancer biology (Cancer Research Center Cologne Essen CCCE) | Dr. rer. nat. Roland Schwarz | 01.01.2022 |
| W2 | Midwifery | Prof. Dr. phil. Nicola Helene Bauer | 01.04.2022 |
| W3 | Medical microbiology and hygiene | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Jonathan Antti Michael Jantsch | 01.04.2022 |
| W3 | General medicine | Dr. med. Beate Sigrid Müller | 01.04.2022 |
| W3 | Cell biology of the skin | Univ.-Prof. Catharina Maria Niessen, PhD | 01.04.2022 |
| W3 | Pharmacology | Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dietmar Fischer | 01.07.2022 |
| W2 | Minimal-invasive, robotic-assisted visceral surgery and artificial intelligence in surgery | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Hans Friedrich Fuchs | 01.07.2022 |
| W3 | Preventive, regenerative and restorative dentistry, oral and maxillofacial medicine I | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. dent. Anja Liebermann, M.Sc. | 01.07.2022 |
| W2 | Clinical and translational uro-oncology | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Pia Valerie Paffenholz | 01.07.2022 |
| W3 | Translational immune oncology (Cancer Research Center Cologne Essen CCCE) | Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Renata Stripecke | 01.07.2022 |
| W2 | Data Analytics in bioinformatics tenure track (W2) GATEWAY | Katarzyna Bozek, PhD | 01.08.2022 |
| W2 | Anatomy | Irina Dudanova, PhD | 01.09.2022 |
| W2 | Antimicrobial Resistance (German Center for Infection Research) (DZIF) | Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Michael Ernst | 01.11.2022 |
| W3 | Health services research | Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. medic. Nicole Ernstmann | 01.11.2022 |
2021
| salary | title | appointmet of | start |
|---|---|---|---|
| W2 | Molecular head and neck cancer research | Dr. rer. nat. Julie George | 01.03.2021 |
| W2 | Neurogenetics of cognitive diseases | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Alfredo Estanislao Ramírez Zuñiga, PhD | 01.03.2021 |
| W3 | Biochemistry II | Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Marius Kaspar Lemberg | 01.04.2021 |
| W2 | oncological surgery - focus on tumors of the upper gastrointestinal tract and of the pancreato-biliary system | apl. Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Schmidt, PhD | 01.04.2021 |
| W3 | Medical informatics | Oya Deniz Beyan, PhD | 01.05.2021 |
| W2 | Dynamics of cancer and immune systems tenure track (W2) (part of the tenure track programme of the German Federal Government and the Federal States) | Silvia von Karstedt, PhD | 01.05.2021 |
| W2 | endowed professorship for Human movement sciences in oncology (German Cancer Aid) | Priv.-Doz. Dr. Sportwiss. Freerk Theeagnus Baumann | 01.06.2021 |
| W2 | Biological child and adolescent psychiatry | Priv.-Doz. Dr. sc. hum. Julian Koenig | 01.07.2021 |
| W2 | Integrated stress response signaling | David Vilchez Guerrero, PhD | 01.07.2021 |
| W2 | Translational imaging in neuro-oncology (Jülicher Modell) (Forschungszentrum Jülich) | apl. Prof. Dr. med. Norbert Galldiks | 01.08.2021 |
| W2 | Forensic molecular genetics | Priv.-Doz. Dr. rer. nat. Cornelius Ernst Alexander Courts | 01.09.2021 |
| W3 | Metabolomics in aging (Alexander von Humboldt professorship) | Christian Frezza, PhD | 01.10.2021 |
| W2 | endowed professorship for Aging and dementia (successor of Prof. Kukolja) (Marga and Walter Boll foundation) | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Özgür Abdullah Onur | 01.10.2021 |
| W2 | Genome maintenance in health and disease (Jülicher Modell) (German Aerospace Center) | Dr. rer. nat. Boris Pfander | 01.10.2021 |
| W2 | endowed professorship for Clinical gerontology (St. Marien Hospital GmbH) | apl. Prof. Dr. med. Maria Cristina Polidori Nelles, PhD | 01.10.2021 |
2020
| salary | title | appointmet of | start |
|---|---|---|---|
| W3 | Clinical nursing sciences | Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Sascha Winny Köpke | 01.01.2020 |
| W2 | Glomerular research in nephrology | apl. Prof. Dr. med. Paul Thomas Brinkkötter | 01.02.2020 |
| W2 | endowed professorhip for Experimental cardiology of aging (Neven DuMont foundation) | Dr. rer. nat. Holger Winkels | 18.02.2020 |
| W3 | Vascular surgery | apl. Prof. Dr. med. Bernhard Dorweiler | 01.04.2020 |
| W3 | Anatomy | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Johannes Andreas Vogt | 01.04.2020 |
| W2 | Bioinformatics | Alexander Dilthey, PhD | 01.05.2020 |
| W2 | Retinal and vitreous surgery | apl. Prof. Dr. med. Tim Ulrich Krohne | 01.06.2020 |
| W2 | endowed professorship for Cardiovascular epidemiology of aging (Marga and Walter Boll foundation) | Priv.-Doz. Dr. sc. hum. Ute Mons | 01.07.2020 |
| W2 | endowed professorship for Cardiopulmonary interaction (Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Herzzentrums des Universitätsklinikums Köln e.V.) | apl. Prof. Dr. med. Stephan Heinrich Rosenkranz | 01.07.2020 |
| W2 | Glaucoma/glaucoma research | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Verena Prokosch | 01.10.2020 |
| W2 | Molecular and cellular physiology tenure track (W2) | Natalia L. Kononenko, PhD | 01.10.2020 |
| W1 | Translational metabolic research (German Aerospace Center) | Mag. rer. nat. Dominik Pesta, PhD, M.Sc. | 01.11.2020 |
| W2 | Clinical genetics | apl. Prof. Dr. med. Christian Netzer, M.A. | 15.12.2020 |
2019
| salary | title | appointmet of | start |
|---|---|---|---|
| W2 | Genomic pathology | Priv.-Doz. Dr. rer. nat. Axel Hillmer | 01.01.2019 |
| W2 | Protein dynamics and proteolysis (Jülicher Modell) (Forschungszentrum Jülich) | Priv.-Doz. Dr. rer. nat. Pitter Florian Huesgen | 01.01.2019 |
| W2 | Biological psychiatry | Dr. med. Dipl.-Psych. Joseph Paul Kambeitz | 01.02.2019 |
| W3 | Physiology | Dr. rer. nat. Tatiana Mikhailovna Korotkova | 01.04.2019 |
| W3 | Translational epigenetics research: cancer - an epigenetic desease? Identification of biomarkers and elucidation of the causes and consequences of epigenetic modification in cancer | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Michal Ruth Schweiger | 01.04.2019 |
| W2 | substitute professor for the endowed professorship for Aging and dementia (Marga and Walter Boll foundation) | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Özgür Abdullah Onur | 01.04.2019 |
| W2 | Translational nephrology | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med Roman-Ulrich Müller | 01.06.2019 |
| W2 | Tumor microenvironment and resistance to therapy | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Christian Philipp Pallasch | 01.06.2019 |
| W2 | Tumor-driven angiogenesis and immune response | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Dr. nat. med. Roland Tillmann Ullrich | 01.06.2019 |
| W3 | Biochemy I (successor of Prof. Noegel) (Alexander von Humboldt professorship) | Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Henning Walczak | 01.06.2019 |
2018
| salary | title | appointmet of | start |
|---|---|---|---|
| W2 | Neuroradiology | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Marc Uwe Schlamann | 01.02.2018 |
| W2 | Neurological movement disorders | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Michael Thomas Barbe | 01.03.2018 |
| W3 | Otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Jens Peter Klußmann | 01.03.2018 |
| W3 | Clinical genomics | Prof. Dr. med. Christian Patrick Schaaf | 01.03.2018 |
| W3 | Applied health economics and patient-centered care | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Stephanie Anja Katharina Stock | 01.04.2018 |
| W3 | Biomedical data analysis and semantics in cooperation with Information Centre for Life Sciences (ZB MED) (Jülicher Modell) | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Dipl.-Inform. Dietrich Roland Georg Rebholz-Schuhmann | 01.05.2018 |
| W2 | Antibiotic resistance of gram-negative pathogens (German Center for Infection Research) | Priv. Doz. Dr. med. Axel Georg Walter Hamprecht | 01.09.2018 |
| W2 | endowed professorship for | Dr. rer. nat. Martin Peifer | 01.09.2018 |
2017
| salary | title | appointmet of | start |
|---|---|---|---|
| W2 | Oncological stereotaxy | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Maximilian Ingolf Ruge | 15.01.2017 |
| W3 | Virology | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Florian Klein | 01.02.2017 |
| W3 | Bioinformatics and computational biology | Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Achim Tresch | 01.04.2017 |
| W2 | Translational cohorts in HIV research (German Centerfor Infection Research) | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Jörg Janne Vehreschild | 01.08.2017 |
| W2 | Virology | Jun.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Baki Akgül | 01.09.2017 |
| W3 | Dermatology and venerology | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Ruth Esther von Stebut-Borschitz | 01.10.2017 |
| W2 | Neuronal regeneration | Dr. Matteo Bergami | 01.12.2017 |
2016
| salary | title | appointmet of | start |
|---|---|---|---|
| W2 | Ophthalmic oncology | Dr. med. Ludwig Maximilian Heindl | 01.01.2016 |
| W3 | Surgery | Univ.-Prof.' Dr.' med. Christiane Josephine Bruns | 01.06.2016 |
| W2 | endowed professorship for Experimentelle pediatric oncology (Förderverein für krebskranke Kinder e.V. Köln ) | Prof. Dr. med. Matthias Hans Fischer | 01.07.2016 |
| W2 | Infectious diseases in dermatology | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Mario Fabri | 15.07.2016 |
| W1 | Translational experimental pediatry | Dr. med. Dr. nat. med. Miguel Angel Alejandre Alcázar | 01.09.2016 |
| W2 | Experimental imaging and experimental image guided therapy | Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Holger Grüll | 15.09.2016 |
| W3 | Aerospace medicine (Jülicher Modell) (Forschungszentrum Jülich) | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Jens Jordan | 01.12.2016 |
2015
| salary | title | appointmet of | start |
|---|---|---|---|
| W3 | Psychiatry and psychotherapy | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Frank Olaf Jessen | 01.01.2015 |
| W2 | Multimodal imaging of neuronal networks of the brain | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Thilo van Eimeren | 01.01.2015 |
| W2 | Cellular basis of neuroplasticity | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Michael Schroeter | 01.02.2015 |
| W3 | Psychiatry und psychotherapy at child and adolescence age | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Stephan Bender | 01.03.2015 |
| W2 | Molecular pathology | Dr. med. Martin Lukas Sos | 01.04.2015 |
| W3 | Experimental immunology Heisenberg professorship (German Research Foundation) | Prof. Dr. med. Florian Klein | 01.06.2015 |
| W2 | Medical psychology, focus on neuropsychology and gender studies | Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Elke Kalbe | 01.08.2015 |
| W2 | Clinical pathology | Dr. med. Alexander Quaas | 01.08.2015 |
| W3 | Urology | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Axel Heidenreich | 01.09.2015 |
| W2 | Space physiology (Jülicher Modell) (German Aerospace Center) | Prof. Dr. med. Jörn Rittweger | 01.09.2015 |
| W3 | Radiotherapy | Prof. Dr. med. Simone Marnitz-Schulze | 01.10.2015 |
| W2 | endowed professorship for Aging and dementia (Marga and Walter Boll foundation) | Dr. med. Juraj Kukolja | 01.12.2015 |
2014
| salary | title | appointmet of | start |
|---|---|---|---|
| W3 | Mitochondrial diseases and aging | Dr. Aleksandra Trifunovic | 01.03.2014 |
| W2 | endwoed professorship for Translational epigenetics research: cancer - an epigenetic desease? Identification of biomarkers and elucidation of the causes and consequences of epigenetic modification in cancer" Lichtenberg professorship (Volkswagen foundation) | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Michal-Ruth | 01.04.2014 |
| W3 | Zellbiologie | Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Wodarz | 01.04.2014 |
| W2 | Clinical electrophysiology | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Daniel Steven | 01.06.2014 |
| W3 | Translational research in aging-associated diseases | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Oliver Andreas Cornely | 01.08.2014 |
| W3 | History and ethics of medicine | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Heiner Fangerau | 15.10.2014 |
| W2 | Clinical anesthesiology | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Thorsten Annecke | 01.11.2014 |
| W2 | Cornea and ocular surface immunology | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Björn Olov Bachmann | 01.11.2014 |
2013
| salary | title | appointmet of | start |
|---|---|---|---|
| W2 | Chair of the Central animal testing facility CECAD | Dr. rer. nat. Branko Zevnik | 15.01.2013 |
| W3 | Radiochemistry and molecular imaging (Jülicher Modell) (Forschungszentrum Jülich) | Dr. rer. nat. Bernd Neumaier | 01.03.2013 |
| W2 | Hepatobiliary and transplant surgery | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Dirk Ludger Stippel | 01.03.2013 |
| W2 | Applied health economics and patient-centered care | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Stephanie Anja Katharina Stock | 01.03.2013 |
| W2 | Experimental neonatology | Priv.-Doz. Dr. rer. nat. Bent Brachvogel | 01.06.2013 |
| W3 | Systems biology (with the faculty of Mathematics and Natral Sciences) | Dr. Andreas Beyer | 08.07.2013 |
| W2 | Infectious disease immunology | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Olaf Utermöhlen | 01.08.2013 |
| W3 | Experimental neurophysiology (Jülicher Modell) (German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases) | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Dirk Isbrandt | 01.10.2013 |
| W3 | Genome stability in aging and disease | Dr. rer. nat. Björn Schumacher | 01.10.2013 |
| W2 | Stroke and neurorehabilitation | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Christian Béla Grefkes | 01.11.2013 |
2012
| salary | title | appointmet of | start |
|---|---|---|---|
| W2 | Interdisciplinary translational oncology | Dr. med. Jürgen Wolf | 01.05.2012 |
| W3 | Radiology | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. David Christian Maintz | 16.01.2012 |
| W2 | Tissue regeneration and tissue repair of the skin research professorship (Bayer Innovation GmbH) | Priv.-Doz.' Dr.' med. Sabine Anne Eming | 01.02.2012 |
| W2 | Clinical and experimental anaesthesiology and pain research | Dr. rer. nat. Tim Hucho | 01.02.2012 |
| W2 | Anatomy and developmental biology | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Martin Scaal | 01.02.2012 |
| W3 | endowed professorship for Immunopathology of the eye (Hans and Marlies Stock foundation) | Univ. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Langmann | 01.04.2012 |
| W2 | Clinical and molecular oncology Lichtenberg professorship (Volkswagen foundation) | Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Hans Christian Reinhardt | 01.05.2012 |
| W2 | Medical genetics | Dr. med. Bernd Wollnik | 01.08.2010 |
| W2 | Sarcoma pathology | Prof. Dr. med. Eva Erika Wardelmann | 01.10.2012 |
| W2 | Statistic genetics (successor of Prof. Kemper) (with the faculty of Mathematics and Natral Sciences) | Prof. Dr. rer. medic. Michael Nothnagel | 01.10.2012 |
| W3 | Nuclear medicine | Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Eduard Drzezga | 01.10.2012 |
| W3 | Kardiology and angiology | Prof. Dr. med. Stephan Baldus | 01.10.2012 |
Online training of the faculty
How to Appeal Committees: Structure, Rules, Equal Opportunity
Online Training "How to Appeals Committee: Structure, Rules, Equity".
Information about the online training
Appointment committees are central to the strategic direction of the faculty and university. They are instrumental in determining which professors will shape teaching and research and the culture of leadership and collaboration for years and decades to come. Serving on appointment committees presents challenges to staff members - especially those contributing for the first time. It is important to understand the regulations and the basic structure of the commission work as well as to know important aspects for the implementation of equal opportunities, which at the same time promote the "best selection".
For this purpose, the Associate Dean's Office for Academic Development and Gender, with the support of the Faculty Appointment Management and in collaboration with MedizinFoto Köln, has developed an online training course "How to..." Appointment Committees: Principles, Processes, Equity prepared. It takes about 40 minutes and qualifies you for the important work in the appeal committee. It is also suitable for people who have contributed to appeals committees more frequently to refresh knowledge and get comprehensive information about aspects of equal opportunity once again.
Thank you for your commitment to faculty work and enjoy our training!
Yours
Associate Dean's Office for Academic Development and Gender
Unconscious Bias in Appeal Processes
For more information on relevant biases, when they may play a role in appeals processes, and measures to address them, see this document.
Explanatory videos of the Equality Office
Gender sensitivity in appointment procedures
Legal basis and regulations of appeal procedures (DE)
