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Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. habil. Christiane Herden

  • Education

    2009 State doctorate, Venia legendi for General Pathology and Specific Pathological Anatomy and Histology at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover
    2002 Specialist in Veterinary Pathology
    2001 Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Pathology (ECVP)
    1997 Conferral as a Doctorate (Dr. med. vet.), Justus-Liebig University Giessen
    1991 License to practice Veterinary Medicine
    1985-1991 Studies of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

  • Academic and Professional Career

    2014-2022 Director of the Residency Veterinary Pathology Training Program of the ECVP
    2014-2022 Acting Director of the Institute of Veterinary Pathology at Justus Liebig University Giessen
    2010 Professor for General Pathology and Specific Pathological Anatomy and Histology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
    2005-2011 Honorary Lecturer, Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Liverpool
    2002-2009 Research Associate/Habilitantin, Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (2007-2009) and Institute of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine (2002-2007), young scientist with own Group
    1999-2001 Research Associate, Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Postdoc
    1994-1998 Research Associate, Institute of Veterinary Pathology and Institute of Virology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, 1997-1998 Research Associate SFB 297 Mechanisms of Neuro-Immune-Endocrine Interactions, Philipps-University Marburg
    1992-1994 Scholarship of the State of Hesse

  • Institutional Responsibilities

    since 2023 Deputy Senator of the Senate of Justus Liebig University Giessen for the “Living University” list
    2017 Research Training Group Initiative GRK2259 “Models of Neuroinflammatory Processes in the Nervous System,” co-led with Prof. Rummel, Institute of Physiology and Biochemistry at Justus Liebig University Giessen
    2015-2023 Senator of the Senate of Justus Liebig University Giessen for the “Living University” list
    2015 Senator, Senate of the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
    2014 Acting head of Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
    2014 Director of Residency Veterinary Pathology Training Programme of the ECVP
    2010 – 2016 Vice Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen und Representative of the Examination Board for Doctorates, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

  • Commissions of trust

    2026-2029 Appointment as a full member of the Bf3R Commission for the 2026–2029 term
    2025-2026 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the One Health Platform
    2022-2023 Member of the internal advisory board of the Zoonosis Platform
    2022-2025 Member of the Selection Committee for “Surplace and Third-Country Scholarships for South and Southeast Asia” at the German Academic Exchange Service
    since 2018 Member of the Executive Board of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Behavior (CMBB) at Philipps University of Marburg (UMR) and Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) within the Central Hesse Research Campus (FCMH)
    2017-2023 Member of the DFG’s Standing Senate Commission on Animal Research
    2017-2024 Member of the Internal Advisory Board of the Paul Ehrlich Institute, Langen
    since 2017 Deputy Representative of the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV), DHV Group 
    Giessen
    2015-2022 Deputy Chair of the “Pathology” Section of the German Veterinary Medical Society (DVMS)
    2017 Representative of German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV), DHV group Giessen
    2017 Member of the Permanent Senate Commission on Animal Protection and Experimentation, DFG
    2017 Scientific Advisory Board of the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen
    2015 Representative of the Section General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy of the German Veterinary Medical Society
    2010 Education Committee of the ECVP

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    2019-2023 Spokesperson for the Flexifunds-funded collaborative initiative “Lung-Brain Axis in Health and Disease,” a Flexifunds project of the Central Hesse Research Campus (FCMH) at Philipps University of Marburg (UMR) and Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU)
    2017-2023 Subproject Leader in the BMBF-funded collaborative project “Zoonotic Bornaviruses (ZooBoCo)”
    2017 Zoonotic Bornavirus Consortium (ZooBoCo), BMBF, TP3
    2012 Dr.-Hans-Messner-Stiftung
    2008 Loro Parque Fundación
    2004-2018 Several scholarships, e.g. DAAD, DAAD-GSSP, Gesellschaft für Epilepsieforschung
    1997 DFG, SFB 297

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