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 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
professorships (W2)
W2
Computational and Systems Biology of Aging and Aging-associated disease
04.04.2024
04.07.2024
17.12.2024
W2
Associate Marga and Walter Boll Professorship in Experimetal Cardio-Oncology
11.03.2024
13.05.2024
10.09.2024
30.09.2024
W2
Prevention of age-associated metabolic diseases
06.01.2025
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
06.11.2024 verl. bis 20.11.2024
Completed appointment procedures/newly appointed professors
2025
salary
title
appointmet of
start
W2
Dermato-Oncology
Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Cindy Franklin
01.02.2025
W3
obstetrics and prenatal medicine
Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Tanja Groten
15.02.2025
W3
Psychosomatics and psychotherapy
Prof. Dr. med. Nadine Lehnen
01.09.2025
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
W2
Else Kröner-Clinician Scientist-professorship in
anti-infective antibodies
Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Dr. nat. med. Philipp Frederik Schommers
01.12.2024
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 Bioinformatics in cancer genomics (Mildred-Scheel foundation) (German Cancer Aid)
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 Schweiger
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
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.
