Florian Klein - CV
General Information
Name
Klein, Florian, Univ.-Prof. Dr. med.
Affiliation
Institute of Virology
University Hospital of Cologne
University Education
Studies of Medicine (10/1998 - 10/2005) in Cologne, Zurich, Bologna, and Boston
Studies of Translational Medicine (7/2011 - 6/2013), New York
Academic Degrees
Doctoral Thesis in Medicine (Dr. med., summa cum laude), University of Cologne
Master of Science (M.Sc.), The Rockefeller University
Academic Career
2017 - today Professor and Director, Institute of Virology, University of Cologne
2015 - 2017 Professor (W3), Experimental Immunology, University of Cologne
2013 - 2015 Assistant Professor of Clinical Investigation, Rockefeller University
2012 - 2013 Chief Clinical Scholar, The Rockefeller University Hospital
2011 - 2013 Instructor in Clinical Investigation, Rockefeller University
2009 - 2011 Postdoctoral Fellow with M.C. Nussenzweig, Rockefeller University
2006 - 2009 Resident, Department I of Internal Medicine, University of Cologne
Additional academic and professional positions
2023 - today Speaker, Center of Infectious Diseases; UKK
2022 - today Speaker, Center for Laboratory Medicine; UKK
2022 - today Speaker, DZIF Bridging Topic – Antibody-based Therapies
2020 - today Co-Speaker (with L. Sander), COVIM Network (NUM)
Honors and Awards
2017 - 2022 Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science)
2021 Vordenker des Jahres (Handelsblatt & Boston Consulting Group)
2020 AIDS Research Award of the Heinz-Ansmann Foundation
2017 Georges-Köhler-Award, German Society of Immunology (DGfI)
2016 DZIF Prize for Tranlational Infection Research
2015 German AIDS Award by the German AIDS society (DAIG)
2014 Heisenberg-Professorship, German Research Foundation (DFG)
2014 ERC-Starting Grant, European Research Council (ERC)
2013 AIDS Research Award of the German Society of Infectious Diseases
2012 Stavros Niarchos Clinical Scholar, Stavros Niarchos Foundation
2009 Research Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2009 Best Doctoral Thesis Award, University of Cologne
2002 - 2005 Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2001 + 2004 Köln Fortune Award of the University of Cologne
Memberships
The Henry Kunkel Society
German Society of Immunology
German Society of Internal Medicine
German Society of Infectious Disease
Society of Virology