Michael Madeja

Michael Madeja is scientific board of the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung, one of the largest foundations in Germany, with responsibility for the two divisions of the foundation: funding medical research and funding medical humanitarian projects. Besides that he is professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt in the Department of Medicine. His fields of research are physiology and neuroscience. Michael Madeja was born 1962. He studied medicine at the University of Münster from 1981 to 1987. From 1987 to 2000 he worked at the Institute of Physiology at the University of Münster and received 1999 an extraordinary professorship. In 2008, he also took over the management of all university projects at the Hertie-Stiftung, and from 2014 onwards also the education and integration projects. In 2017 he left the Hertie-Stiftung and became scientific director of the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung. Michael Madeja has published more than 50 papers in international scientific journals. In addition, he also writes articles on the foundation's work, as well as on content and organizational issues of research in daily newspapers and broader publications, and has published four books. Michael Madeja is a member of several boards of trustees including two Max Planck Institutes and the Literaturhaus Frankfurt. He was previously a member of the council of the doctorate school in physiology, pharmacology and toxicology of the university of Siena in Italy.