University-Wide Inaugural Lecture - Newly appointed professors in focus
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The University-Wide Inaugural Lecture introduces newly appointed professors of outstanding strategic importance for TUD's research profile.
Visit the event in Fritz-Foerster-Building, auditorium 244, always on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 4:40 pm during the lecture period. The informal get-together following each lecture offers the opportunity for individual discussions.
The next lecture with Prof. Hagen B. Huttner
Chair for Neurology
Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus
CV
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2015 |
Adolf Wallenberg Prize of the German Stroke Society and the German Society of Neurology |
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| 2016 | Congress Secretary of the 89th Congress of the German Neurological Society in Mannheim |
| 2018 & 2023 | Lead guideline author of the German Society of Neurology ( registration number 030 - 105) |
| 2020 | Hans Georg Mertens Prize of the German Society of Neurology and the German Society of NeuroIntensive and Emergency Medicine |
| 1999-2002 | Doctoral thesis "MRI-based analyses of inter-individual anatomical variability of the human frontal lobe" at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig (Prof. Dr. D.-Y. von Cramon) |
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| 1995-2002 | Medical studies at the University of Leipzig |
| since 02/2025 | Director of the Neurological Clinic, University Hospital Dresden |
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| 2021-2025 | Director of the Neurological Clinic, Justus Liebig University Giessen |
| 2015 & 2018 |
Senior Consultant (from 2015) and Deputy Clinic Director (2018) of the Neurological Clinic Erlangen |
| 2014-2016 | Admission to the PhD program of the Karolinska Institute and graduation with a doctoral degree (Ph.D.). Title of doctoral thesis: "Investigating Cell Turnover In The Healthy And Diseased Adult Human Brain" |
| 2014 | Appointment as Extraordinary Professor |
| 2013 | Additional qualifications in intensive care medicine & geriatrics |
| 2011-2012 | DFG fellowship (Hu1961/1-1) and post-doctoral student at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Head: Prof. Jonas Frisén) |
| 2010 | Specialist in neurology and senior physician at the Neurological University Hospital Erlangen |
| 2010 | Habilitation for the subject "clinical neurology" |
| 2009 | Rotation in psychiatry at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Prof. Dr. J. Kornhuber) |
| 2008 | Habilitation for "Experimental Neurology" |
| 2007-2008 | Resident in Neurology at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Prof. Dr. S. Schwab) |
| 2006-2007 | Post-doctoral student at the Biotechnological Research Center of the TU Dresden (BIOTEC): Basic research on neural stem cell markers (Dr. D. Corbeil) |
| 2003-2006 | Internship and assistant physician at the Neurological Clinic of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg (Prof. Dr. W. Hacke) |
Details
The University-Wide Inaugural Lecture "Studying adult neurogenesis in humans: insights from 14C‐radiocarbondating and 15N‐thymidine methodology" by Prof. Huttner will take place on:
January 15, 2026
4:40 pm – 6:10 pm (6th double period)
FOE/244, Fritz Foerster Building, Mommsenstrasse 6, 01069 Dresden
The lecture and subsequent discussion will be held in English.
Afterwards, there will be time for an informal get-together.
Past Events
For a summary of our previous events, please visit our past events page.
About the University-Wide Inaugural Lecture
Newly appointed professors who are renowned for their outstanding research work and their international reputation are choosing to move to TU Dresden. The areas of research pursued by our new members are interdisciplinary in nature.
Internationally visible, newly appointed professors working in strategically relevant research areas make a decisive contribution to the development of our university. Therefore, TU Dresden welcomes enthusiastic individuals who increase the attractiveness of Dresden as a science hub and whose numerous activities connect TUD and DRESDEN-concept partners across the city.
University-wide inaugural lectures are hosted in consultation with the appointing faculties and associated institutions. More information (Intern)