Christian Streffer

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Christian Streffer (born July 5, 1934 in Schneidemühl , Grenzmark Province of Posen-West Prussia ) is a German emeritus for radiation biology.

Life

Streffer attended the Lauenburg School of Academics in Ratzeburg. After graduating from high school (1954) he began to study chemistry and biochemistry at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen . He became active in the Corps Saxonia Jena et Bonn zu Bonn (1954) and in the Corps Borussia Tübingen (1955). As an inactive , he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the University of Hamburg and the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . Graduate chemist since December 1959, he was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. PhD . After a research stay at the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford with Nobel Prize winner Sir Hans Adolf Krebs , he worked at the Radiological Institute of the University of Freiburg as a research assistant and senior assistant. In 1967 he completed his habilitation in molecular radiation biology. He became Scientific Councilor and Professor of Radiation Biology at the Radiological Institute of the Albert Ludwig University. In 1974 he was appointed to the Chair of Medical Radiation Biology at the University of Essen . As director he headed the institute at the University Hospital Essen for over 25 years. He was dean of the Faculty of Theoretical Medicine in 1976/77 and 1981–1983 and rector of the University of Essen from 1988–1992 . In 1999 he retired .

From 1996 to 2006 he was also director of the department for ethical questions in natural science and technology at the Institute for Science and Ethics , an institute affiliated to the Universities of Bonn and Duisburg-Essen. Since 2008 he has been an emeritus member of the Main Commission, International Commission for Radiological Protection, ICRP. In addition, he worked as an expert on radiation risk for the federal government, state governments, social courts and professional associations as well as an “overseas expert” for the Japanese government in connection with the reactor accident in Fukushima. Voluntary non-academic activities: Member of the board of the DRK sisterhood in Essen (1988–2013); Chairman of the supervisory board of the Evangelical Hospital Essen-Werden (1992–2013).

He was the leader of various interdisciplinary project groups and lead author in the publication of these projects; among others

  • Environmental Standards: Combined Exposures and their Effects on Human Beings and their Environment (2003)
  • Low Dose Exposures in the Environment: Dose-Effect Relations and Risk Evaluation (2004)
  • Ethical Problems of Long-Term Global Energy Supply (2005)
  • Radioactive Waste - Technical and Normative Aspects of its Disposal (2011)

Streffer was visiting professor at the University of Rochester and the University of Kyoto .

Scientific fields of work

Radiation risk in humans, especially during prenatal development; Investigations of genomic instability, chromosome changes and biochemical systems after irradiation. Experimental tumor therapy with ionizing rays (X-rays, neutrons). Questions of radiation protection and the assessment of radiation risk including ethical questions. Assessment of the risk after exposure to radiation and simultaneous exposure to toxic substances.

Commission work

Radiation Protection Commission of the Federal Government (chaired 1984/85 and 1993–1995), International Commission for Radiation Protection (ICRP, member of the Main Commission and Chairman of Committee 2 until June 30, 2007, previously member of Committee 1, since 2008 Emeritus Member of the ICRPP Main Commission) , Scientific Committee of the United Nations for the Effects of Ionizing Radiation (UNSCEAR), head of the German delegation until 2006. Board work in a number of scientific societies. 1994 and 1995 President of the European Society for Radiation Biology.

Honors

  • Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Medal of the Polish Society for Radiation Research (2001)
  • Friedrich-Dessauer Medal of the German Association for Radiological Protection (2002)
  • Honorary President of the European Society for Radiation Biology (2002–2008)
  • Hanns Langendorff Medal (2007)
  • Sievert Award from the International Radiological Protection Association (2008)
  • Ulrich Hagen Medal of the Society for Biological Radiation Research (2009)
  • Distinguished Service Award of the Radiation Research Society, USA (2009)
  • Crown Cross in Gold of Diakonie Deutschland (2013)
  • Decoration of Honor of the German Red Cross (2014)
  • Honorary member of various scientific societies

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 147/26; 21/666
  2. ↑ Anniversary brochure - Publication de jubilé - Anniversary publication 1964 - 2014, Swiss Society for Radiation Biology and Medical Physics (SGSMP, SSRPM, SSRFM), October 2014, ISBN 3 908 125 55 3
  3. ^ Hanns Langendorff Medal for life's work. In: langendorff-stiftung.de. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Streffer, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist, radiation biologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneidemühl , Province of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia