Christian Floto

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Christian Floto, 2018

Christian Floto (* 1956 in Lübeck ) is a German doctor and science journalist .

Life

After graduating from the Katharineum in Lübeck , Christian Floto studied human medicine in Kiel and Lübeck . In 1982, he was in Luebeck with a dissertation on The traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents to Dr. med. PhD. From 1982 to 1984 he was a scientific consultant at the Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Examination Questions in Mainz and from 1984 to 1986 he was the medical director of the State Medical Association of Hesse. From 1986 to 1991 he worked as an academic adviser for theoretical medicine in the health sciences working group at the University of Osnabrück, from 1992 for the ZDF , where he became head of the ZDF's health and nature editorial team in 1993 and followed Hans Mohl as moderator of the health magazine Praxis . Until 2003 he represented ZDF on the board of trustees of Aktion Mensch (formerly: “Aktion Sorgekind”).

In 2001 Floto took over the management of the Institute for Scientific Film ( IWF Knowledge and Media ) in Göttingen . At the same time he was appointed full professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig for the field of media use in science . From 2005 to 2006 he was Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. Since April 2006, Christian Floto has been head of the science and education department at Deutschlandfunk . In 2006, the Technical University of Braunschweig also appointed him honorary professor.

Honors

In 2018 Floto was awarded the Science Journalism Prize of the German Cardiac Society .

Publications (excerpt)

  • with Kerstin Wunderlich and Horst Hettwer: Field of activity health education: an analysis of basic, advanced and advanced training measures in the Federal Republic of Germany. Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Bern, New York, Paris 1989 (European university publications: series 11, pedagogy; volume 399) ISBN 3-631-41756-X .
  • with Daniel Grotke and Horst Hettwer: Prevention of pollen allergies: Pollen information service systems in Europe. With 4 tables and a foreword by F. Trendelenburg. G. Fischer, Stuttgart, Jena, New York 1994, ISBN 3-437-30737-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Christian Floto receives chair for media use in science ( memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on tu-braunschweig.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tu-braunschweig.de
  2. ↑ DGK Prize for Science Journalism goes to Christian Floto , dgk.org of April 6, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Floto, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and science journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck