President’s Commissioner for the Turkish-German University (TDU)

Prof. Dr. Florian J. Schweigert

Photo: Sandra Scholz | ZIM

Born in Munich, Germany (1958); married with four children
1978 Abitur
1984 Veterinary license after completing university studies in Veterinary Medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich
1986 Doctoral degree in Veterinary Medicine, summa cum laude
1990 Post-doctoral dissertation (Habilitation) in Physiology and Physiological Chemistry with Prof. Dr. Hermann Zucker
1984 – 1988 Research fellow at the Department for Physiology, Physiological Chemistry and Animal Nutrition at the LMU in Munich
1988 – 1990 “Research Fellow in Medicine“ at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
1990 – 1992 Assistant at the Department for the Physiology of Lactation and Reproduction at the Technical University of Munich
1992 University Professor (C3) for Nutritional Physiology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Leipzig
1995 University Professor (C4) for the Physiology and Pathophysiology of Nutrition at the University of Potsdam
2005 – 2012 Chairman of the Society for Applied Vitamin Research
Member of the Advisory Board of the German Association for Nutrition (DGE), the Danone Foundation for Healthy Nutrition, and the University Society of Potsdam
1997 – 2010 Liaison Professor at the Hanns Seidel Foundation
Guest Professor at Mahidol University in Bangkok and at Khon Kaen University (both in Thailand)
Initiator of the Potsdam Summer School of International Nutrition
2016 - 2023 Vice President for International Affairs at the University of Potsdam

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