Our team
Management
Prof. Dr. med. Michael Hoelscher
Director, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine
+49 (0)89 4400-59800
PD Dr. med. Camilla Rothe
Senior physician, Deputy Head, Head of Outpatient Clinic
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
Management assistance
Jasmin Gezgin
Assistant to the Director Prof. Michael Hoelscher
+49 (0)89 4400-59800
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Administration and logistics
Thomas Hauke
Administration (financial administration, third-party funds)
+49 (0)89 4400-59836
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Petra Schneider
Administration
+49 (0)89 4400-59802
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German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) - Munich site
Prof. Dr. med. Michael Hoelscher
Director, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine
+49 (0)89 4400-59800
Dr. Arlett Heiber
DZIF Site Manager Munich and TTU Manager Tuberculosis
Head of Finance
Jan Wildt
Head of Financial Administration, "International Medicine & Public Health"
+49 (0)89 4400-59818
Team
Verena Czirnich
Financial Administration, Scientific Administrator DZIF
+49 (0)89 4400-59838
Thomas Hauke
Administration (financial administration, third-party funds)
+49 (0)89 4400-59836
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Sebastian Kressierer
Finance Administration, "International Medicine & Public Health"
+49 (0)89 4400-59824
IT
cand. med. Simon Winter
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Dietrich von Witzleben
IT Manager (Outpatient Clinic location, Leopoldstrasse 5)
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Communications Department Tropical Institute / Press Contact
Judith Eckstein, M.A.
Press and Public Relations / Senior Communications Manager
(+49) 089 4400-59839
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Tina Shaw
Communications Manager/Co-Lead Work Package 11, UNITE4TB
089 4400-59841
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Presse.Tropeninstitut@med.uni-muenchen.de
Contact project management
Dr. rer. nat. Otto Geisenberger
Unit Head Project Management
Contact quality management
Dr. rer. nat. Susanne Vejda
Head of Quality Management
Cornelia Lüer
Quality Management / Quality Manager
Law
Andrea Zwurtschek
Fully qualified lawyer / Legal Council
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Dr. rer. nat. Gerhard Pöpperl (LL.M.)
Clinical Project Manager / Alliance Manager
089 4400-59868
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089 4400-59870
tropinst@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Monday - Thursday
08.00 to 13.00
14.00 to 16.00
Friday
08.00 to 13.00
Leopoldstrasse 5
80802 Munich
Outpatient clinic management
PD Dr. med. Camilla Rothe
Senior physician, Deputy Head, Head of Outpatient Clinic
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
Secretariat
Elke Fischer
Secretariat
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
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Anja Hansemann
Secretariat
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
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Lina Karakoyun
Sekretariat Ambulanz
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
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Marieluise Molnar
Study nurse
Gisela Schödl-Prade
Outpatient clinic Administrative staff
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
Nicole Waidmann
Secretariat
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
PD Dr. med. Camilla Rothe
Senior physician, Deputy Head, Head of Outpatient Clinic
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
PD Dr. med. Günter Fröschl
Head of the Teaching & Training Unit (T&TU), Board Member, Center for International Health (CIH)
Dr. med. Kristina Huber
Specialist in general medicine, DTM&H
+49 (0)89 4400-59894
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Dr. med. Sebastian Knorz
Specialist in internal medicine
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Dr. med. Astrid Niederfahrenhorst
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Dr. med. Mirjam Schunk
Senior physician, deputy head of outpatient clinic
Dr. med. Rahel Spindler
Specialist in internal medicine, outpatient physician
+49 (0)89 4400-59850
Dr. med. Tanja Schwamberger
Specialist in internal medicine, outpatient physician
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Dr. med. Claudia Wallrauch
MSc, Fachärztin für Hygiene, Med. Mikrobiologie und Innere Medizin / MSc, Specialist in Hygiene, Medical Microbiology, and Internal Medicine
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Robert Cohen
Travel Medicine Consultation
Dr. med. Elisabeth Güttler
Specialist in general medicine
Dr. med. Daphne Hofmann
Fachärztin für Innere Medizin/
Specialist in Internal Medicine
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Christian Janke, MSc MPH
Assistant doctor
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Dr. med. Franziska Winter
Travel medicine consultant
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Dr. med. Stephanie Zellerer
Fachärztin für Innere Medizin/
Specialist in Internal Medicine
089 4400-59850
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Leopoldstrasse 5
80802 Munich
Management
Dr. med. Mirjam Schunk
Senior physician, deputy head of outpatient clinic
Head of Laboratory Diagnostics
Prof. Dr. med. Gisela Bretzel
Senior physician, head of laboratory (diagnostic laboratories)
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
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Laboratory team and medical-technical service
Julia Binder
MTLA
Heike Fensterseifer
CTA
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Kerstin Helfrich
BTA, deputy head TA, deputy QMB
Simone Lehn
MTLA, senior TA
Tanja Loibl
MTLA
Karina Maier
MTLA
Marijana Okadar
MTLA
Malkin Saar
MSc, QMB
+49 (0)89 2180-3512
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Angelika Thomschke
CTA
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Tamaz Tsulaja
PhD student
Roswitha Uhlstein
MTLA
Andrea Volgger
MTLA
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Laboratory aids
Alexandros Alagkiozidis
Laboratory help
Mila Nikolic
Gordana Ivancevic
Management
Prof. Dr. med. Michael Hoelscher
Director, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine
+49 (0)89 4400-59800
Research - Employees (A-Z)
Mohamed Ahmed, PhD
Postdoc
PD Dr. med. Martin Alberer
Affiliated scientist
Dr. rer. nat. Ulrike Amann-Gassner
Clinical Project Manager, TB Clinical Trials Unit, EX-DR TB Project
089 4400-59831
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Tejaswi
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Data Manager
+49 (0)89 4400-59841
Dr. med. Rebekka Astudillo, DTMIH
Sponsor Medical Expert
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Abhishek Bakuli, PhD
Affiliated research associate
Erlandy Basson, MD
Sponsor Medical Expert, study physician
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Dr. rer. nat. Olga Baranov
Bioinformatics Manager
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Dr. med. Anna-Lisa Behnke
Sponsor Medical Expert
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Dr. med. Marcus Beißner
Affiliated scientist
Dr. Peter Braun
Group Leader, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP, Penzberg
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Dr. Simone Braun
Group Leader, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP, Penzberg
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Claudia Bräu-Heberger
CTA, Research
Prof. Dr. med. Gisela Bretzel
Senior physician, head of laboratory (diagnostic laboratories)
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Noemi Castelletti
Head of the Data Science Unit
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Dr. Mkunde Chachage
PhD, MSc, NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Center, Tanzania
Catarina Cova-Miserok
Project Manager, DECISION Study
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Fidelina Cumbe Zekoll
Data Manager
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Mikaela Coleman, PhD
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Dr. med. vet. Julia Dreisbach
Scientific Program Manager, BTZ-043
Kira Elsbernd
Epidemiology
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Tabea Eser
cand. rer. nat.
Heike Fensterseifer
CTA
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PD Dr. med. Günter Fröschl
Head of the Teaching & Training Unit (T&TU), Board Member, Center for International Health (CIH)
Aravind Radhakrishnan Geetha
Clinical Data Manager
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Dr. rer. nat. Otto Geisenberger
Unit Head Project Management
Prof. Dr. Christof Geldmacher
Unit Head - Research Group "Infection and Immunity"
Dr. Akshita Gupta, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow DECIDE-TB
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Marlene Hannes, MSc
Research Assistant/Doctoral Candidate
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Dr. rer. nat. Kathrin Held
Unit Head - Research Group "Infection and Immunity"
Dr. Arlett Heiber
DZIF Site Manager Munich and TTU Manager Tuberculosis
PD Dr. med. Norbert Heinrich
Senior Physician, Unit Head, Tuberculosis Diagnostics & Drug Development
Amy Heilman
Clinical Project Manager
+49(0)89 4400-59898
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Kerstin Helfrich
BTA, deputy head TA, deputy QMB
Prof. Dr. med. KH. Herbinger
external employee, affiliated scientist
Dr. med. Kristina Huber
Specialist in general medicine, DTM&H
+49 (0)89 4400-59894
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Dr. Olena Ivanova, MD, MPH, PhD
Affiliated researcher
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Christian Janke, MSc MPH
Assistant doctor
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Christoph Killing
Statistician
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Niculina Kriewall
BTA
Professor Katharina Kranzer
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Dr. med. Arne Kroidl
Specialist in internal medicine, infectiology, unit head: HIV and co-infections
Prof. Dr. med. Inge Kroidl
Unit Head, Research Group Helminth Infections and Co-Infections
Dr. Rebecca Kisch
Epidemiology
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Niculina Kriewall
BTA
Gabriele Liegl
MTLA, Max von Pettenkofer Institute of the LMU
Luming Lin
PhD student
Karoline Löffel
Study Coordinator
Dr. Wandini Lutchmun
Affiliate TB researcher
Mairi McClean
PhD candidate
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Dr. rer. nat. Wilbert Mbuya
NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Center, Tanzania
Dr. rer. nat. Anna-Maria Mekota
Clinical Project Manager
+49 (0)89 4400-59817
Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Meyer
Scientific Program Manager
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Dr. rer. nat. Susanne Mirold-Mei
Clinical Project Manager/Regulatory Affairs Manager
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Mariana Müller
Clinical Project Manager (on parental leave)
+49 (0)89 4400-59831
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Dr. med. Leonie Nabben
Studienärztin/Research Physician
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Yuka Nadai-Geldmacher
Assistant doctor
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Ivan Noreña MD, MSc
Study physician; Sponsor Medical Expert Tuberculosis
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Dr. Anna-Cathrine Neumann-Cip
Research assistant, deputy head of working group
Dr. med. Laura Olbrich, DPhil
Unit Head New TB Diagnostics, Sponsor Medical Expert
Dr. Florian Opperer
Research assistant, TUM/LMU Clinic Cooperation project
Dr. Susanna Oswald
Research Associate, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP
Laura Páramo MD
Study physician; Sponsor Medical Expert Tuberculosis
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Francesco Picasso
Statistician/Doctoral Candidate
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Dr. rer. biol. hum. Bettina Pitter
Project manager
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Dr. Michael Plank
Project Manager
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Dr. med. univ. Michel Pletschette, MSc, DTMH
Specialist in microbiology and infection epidemiology
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Dr. rer. nat. Gerhard Pöpperl (LL.M.)
Clinical Project Manager / Alliance Manager
089 4400-59868
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Arpita Pujar
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PD Dr. med. Andrea Rachow
Specialist in Internal Medicine and Tropical Medicine, Unit Head "TB Epidemiology and Clinical Cohorts"
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Sabine Rappe
MTLA, Research
Martina Rauscher
Alia Razid, MSc
PhD Candidate
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Dr. Christina Reinkemeyer
Project Manager
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Dr. agr. Friedrich Rieß
Affiliated research associate
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Sandra Rjeschni
PhD Student, Doctoral Candidate Dr. rer. nat.
PD Dr. med. Camilla Rothe
Senior physician, Deputy Head, Head of Outpatient Clinic
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
Raquel Rubio-Acero, PhD
Biologist, PostDoc
+49 (0)89 4400 59858
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Dr. Angela Ruland
Clinical project manager
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Malkin Saar
MSc, QMB
+49 (0)89 2180-3512
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Rheka Shambhu
Clinical Data Manager
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Dr. med. Mirjam Schunk
Senior physician, deputy head of outpatient clinic
Sarah Sternkopf
BTA
Christoph Sticha-Kaiser
PhD Student
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Angelika Thomschke
CTA
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Tamaz Tsulaja
PhD student
Danni Wang, MSc
cand. rer. nat.
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Dr. med. univ. Maximilian Wekerle
Sponsor Medical Expert
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PD Dr. med. Andreas Wieser
Senior physician, working group leader, deputy head of laboratory diagnostics
Dr. med. Andreas Zeder
Specialist for internal medicine
Manuela Zwerenz
Study Coordinator
A detailed overview of doctoral students, PhD students, Master's students and student assistants working in research at the Tropical Institute can be found in the information on the individual research groups.
Research groups (A-Z)
- Data management and data analysis, statistics, epidemiology
- Diagnostic research: Neglected mycobacterial diseases
- HIV, co-infections and vaccine studies
- Humanitarian aid and development cooperation
- Vaccine development
- Infection Immunology (Infection & Immunity)
- International & Global Health
- Clinical tropical medicine, travel and migration medicine
- New analytical and diagnostic methods in infectious diseases and tropical medicine
- One Health: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
- SARS-CoV-2 research
- Sexual and reproductive health and rights
- Tuberculosis: New diagnostics
- Tuberculosis: Drug development
- Tuberculosis: Epidemiology
- Tuberculosis Research (Prof. Katharina Kranzer)
- Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs): Helminth infections and co-infections
Dr. Simone Braun
Group Leader, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP, Penzberg
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Dr. Peter Braun
Group Leader, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP, Penzberg
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Dr. Jessica Barthel
Clinical Project Manager, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP
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Dr. Susanna Oswald
Research Associate, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP
Jil Römer
BTA, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP, Penzberg
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Dr. Thomas Seeholzer
Scientific Project Manager, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP
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Dr. Sabine Suppmann
Group Leader, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP, Penzberg
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Head of the Teaching and Training Unit
PD Dr. med. Günter Fröschl
Head of the Teaching & Training Unit (T&TU), Board Member, Center for International Health (CIH)
Team
Adea Borova
Ph.D. International Health Program Coordinator
+49 (0)89 4400 59830
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Carmen Dumitrescu
tropEd Secretariat Coordinator and Coordinator of the Humanitarian Symposium Munich series
+49 (0)89 4400 59828
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Emily Garsleitner, M.Sc.
Coordinator of the DAAD EPOS Scholarship Program and the Else-Kröner-Fresenius-Foundation-funded Leprosy in Ethiopia Project
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Vahuka Valiyakath
Masters Program Coordinator T&TU
+49 (0)89 4400 59815
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