Christoph Markschies studied Classics, Philosophy and Theology at the Universities of Marburg, Munich and Tübingen and in Jerusalem, 1988 till 1994 Assistant and Lecturer at the University of Tübingen, 1991 PhD, 1994 Habilitation at Tübingen.

Academic and Professional Career

• Since 2020 President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
• 2012-2018 Vice-President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
• 2003-2015 Secretary of the Class of Humanities of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (former Prussian Academy of Sciences)
• 2013 Senior Fellow Martin Buber Society Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• 2010 Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton
• 2009/2010 Stewart Visiting Research Scholar in the Humanities Council, Programm of Jewish Studies, University of Princeton
• 2008/2009, 2013 and 2019 Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford
• since 2004 Chair of Church History (Ancient Christianity) at the Humboldt University of Berlin
• 2000-2004 Chair of Church History at the Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg
• 1999/2000, 2005/2006 and 2016/2017 Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• 1998/1999 Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for Advanced Study
• 1994-2000 Chair of Church History at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

(Corresponding/Foreign) Member of the:

• European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Academia Europea
• Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
• German Archeological Institute
• Academia Ambrosiana Milan
• Heidelberger Academy of Science
• Mainzer Academy of Science and Literature

Previous functions in scientific committees

• 2017 Federal Cross of Merit (1st Class)
• 2016 Director of Chronoi – Einstein Research Enter Chronoi (on Time and Awareness of Time in Ancient Societies), Berlin
• 2014 Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation

Honours and Awarded Memberships

• 2017 doctor honoris causa of the Pontifical Lateran University – Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum
• 2011 doctor honoris causa of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo
• 2010 Salzburg University Prize
• 2007 doctor honoris causa of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of Lucian- Blaga-University Sibiu/Hermannstadt
• 2001 Leibniz-Award of the German National Research Council
• 1995 Hanns-Lilje-Award of the Goettingen Academy of Sciences
• 1980 State’s President’s Price for Young Historians

Nach seinem Studium an den Universitäten Münster und Freiburg war Roland Göhde bei der Partec GmbH in Münster als HIV/AIDS-Projektkoordinator und als Leiter der Abteilung Essential Healthcare tätig. Göhde war als Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der im Jahr 2000 gegründeten Partec GmbH Görlitz tätig. Seit 2014 ist er Senior Managing Director des deutschen Diagnostik- und Biotechnologieunternehmens Sysmex Partec sowie Vorstandsvorsitzender der GHA – German Health Alliance, ehemals German Healthcare Partnership (GHP), einer Initiative, die 2010 gemeinsam von der Bundesregierung und dem Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI) gegründet wurde.

Activities & Positions

• Since 2021: Member of the Advisory Board | Institute for Research in International Assistance (IRIA), Akkon University of Applied Sciences for Human Sciences
• Since 2021: EU Climate Pact Ambassador
• Since 2020: Member of the Board of Trustees | Neurological Rehabilitation Centre NRZ Godeshöhe Bonn
• Since 2019: Member of the Advisory Group | UNAIDS Health Innovation Exchange (HIEx)
• Since 2019: Member of the Steering Committee | Global Health Hub Germany
• Since 2019: Member of the Board | BDI Committee for Industrial Health Economy
• Since 2019: Member of the Strategic Board | BDI Initiative Digital Health
• Since 2018: Chair | Private Sector Advisory Board of GIZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
• Since 2017: Member | World Health Summit Council
• Since 2017: Permanent Guest of the BDI Presidential Board
• 2016: Initiator of the German Global Health Award, granted for the first time in 2017
• Since 2014: Chairman of the Board | GHA – German Health Alliance
• Since 2014: Member of the Board | German-African Business Association (Afrika-Verein)
• Since 2014: Senior Managing Director | Sysmex Partec GmbH
• 2014: Main initiator of the “German-African Healthcare Forum” and of the multisectoral “Action Group on Ebola”
• 2012-2016: Founding Member | Saxon Future Commission for Biotechnology & Life Sciences
• 2012-2014: Founding Member | Advisory Board of the Coordinating Agency for the Free State of Saxony Healthcare Sector
• 2009-2016: Founding Chairman of the Board | biosaxony – Free State of Saxony Biotechnology & Life Sciences Association
• 2000-2014: Managing Partner | Partec GmbH

Further Activities
In 2012, Roland Göhde and co-founded the non-profit Göhde Foundation with a specific focus in Africa on essential healthcare, water supply, education and electricity supply, since 2017 with a second area of activities in classical music, especially in the context of supporting children as well as top young talents.

Awards
Besides other awards, Roland Göhde received the Innovation Award of the Free State of Saxony in 2003 and the IQ Innovation Award of Central Germany in 2007. At the “1st German Congress of World Market Leaders” in 2011, he was honored with the Young Entrepreneurs Award, granted for the first time by Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG. For his commitment and merits for the biotechnology sector in the Free State of Saxony, Göhde received the “Biosaxony Award” in 2019.

In 1979 Pries passed his medical examination at the University of Cologne in Germany. In the following year, he received his doctoral degree (summa cum laude). Until 1985, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cologne and then moved to the Institute of Physiology of the Freie Universität Berlin (FU). In 1990, Pries finished his habilitation at the Medical Faculty of Freie Universität Berlin and became Associate Professor at the Department of Physiology in 1995. From 1997 to 1998 Axel Pries was employed as Senior Physician for Anaesthesiology at the German Heart Center Berlin (DHZB). In 1998 he became a Full Professor at the Institute for Physiology of the Freie Universität Berlin; from 2001 to 2015 he was Head of the Institute for Physiology of the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. His major research field include blood rheology, microcirculation, microvascular network analysis, endothelial function, microvascular adaptation and angiogenesis.

Pries was Vice Director at the Centre for Preclinical Medicine of Charité (2008-2015) and Vice Director at the Centre for Cardiovascular Research, CCR, Charité (2009-2013). For thirty years he was also a consultant for NIH grants at the University of Arizona, Tucson with Tim Secomb (1984-2014) which involved yearly visits of approx. one month.

From 2015 to 2022 he was Dean and member of the Executive Board of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. 2003-2015, Prof. Pries was Board Member of the Faculty. From 2018-2020 he served as interim CEO and member of the board of the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) and in parallel as President of the Biomedical Alliance in Europe. With the beginning of the year 2021, he became President of the World Health Summit. Since 2023 he is also Pro Rector of the Danube Private University in Krems / Austria.

 

Education & professional career 

1979: Medical examination, University of Cologne

2/1980: Doctoral degree (Dr. med., summa cum laude)

1980: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cologne

1985: Research Assistant (C1), Dept. of Physiology, FU

7/1990: Habilitation, Medical Faculty, Freie Universität Berlin (FU)

1991: Lecturer of Physiology (C2), Dept. of Physiology, FU

1995: Associate Professor, Dept. of Physiology, FU

1997-1998: Senior Physician, Anaesthesiology, German Heart Centre Berlin (DHZB)

12/1998: Full Professor, Dept. of Physiology, FU

1984-2014: University of Arizona, Tucson, Consultant for NIH grants with Tim Secomb, (yearly stays of one month at UofA).

2001-2015: Head, Institute of Physiology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

2003-2015: Board Member, Faculty of Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

2008-2015: Vice Director, Centre for Preclinical Medicine, Charité

2009-2013: Vice Director, Centre for Cardiovascular Research, CCR, Charité

2015-2022: Dean, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

2018-2020: CEO (interim), Berlin Institute of Health (BIH)

2018-2019:  President, Biomedical Alliance in Europe

2021-present: President, World Health Summit

2023-present: Pro Rector, Danube Private University

 

Honours, Awards & Fellowships

1980: Thesis Award “Hochhausstiftung”, University of Cologne

1986: Abbott Microcirculation Award, European Society for Microcirculation

1995: Lafon Hemorheology-Microcirculation Award, International Society for Clinical Haemorheology

2000: Fellow, European Society of Cardiology

2008: Visiting Fellowship, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge/UK

2008: Award of the Asian Union for Microcirculation

2011: Malpighi Award, European Society for Microcirculation

2015: William Harvey Basic Science Lecture and Silver Medal, European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

2015: Kitanomaru Award, 10^th World Conf. for Microcirculation, Kyoto, Japan

2018: Poiseuille Gold Medal, International Society of Biorheology