Lars Schaade

Lars Schaade is president at the Robert Koch Institute, Germany's federal institute of public health, and has also been the head of the institute's Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens since 2010. Prior to joining the Robert Koch Institute, Schaade lead the communicable disease unit in the German Federal Ministry of Health from 2007 to 2010 and was an advisor for the same unit from 2002 to 2007. He has also held positions in science and clinical medicine at the University Göttingen, the Clinical Centre Kassel, and the RWTH Aachen University. He has been appointed as a university lecturer (Privatdozent) for medical microbiology and virology at the RWTH Aachen University since 2003 and as an adjunct professor at the Charité University Medicine Berlin since 2017. Since 2000, he has been board certified for microbiology and infectious disease epidemiology. Schaade received his doctorate in medicine in 1994.