Vice President for International Affairs and Fundraising President´s Commissioner for European Digital UniverCity - EDUC

Prof. Dr. Florian J. Schweigert

Term of office

• 01.01.2021 - 31.12.2023

Responsibilities

• International Affairs
• Fundraising
• Law Faculty affairs
• Turkish-German University
• Center for Languages and Key Competences (together with the Vice President for Teaching and Studies)

CV

• 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

Office of the Vice President for International Affairs and Fundraising

Cathrin Pfaffenbach

Haus 09, Zimmer 1.06
Tel.: 0331/977-1406
Fax: 0331/977-1089
E-Mail: cathrin.pfaffenbachuuni-potsdampde