Hanns-Christian Gunga

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Hanns-Christian Gunga (born August 8, 1954 in Soest ) is a German university professor for space medicine and extreme environments at the Center for Space Medicine at the Charité , a member of the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin . From 2015 to 2016 he was acting director of the Institute for Physiology at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Carité Cross Over (CCO). He has currently been the deputy director of the institute since 8/2016. Since 2012 he has also been visiting professor at the Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, China, and since 2014 visiting professor at the State Key Laboratory of Space Medicine Fundamentals and Application, China Astronaut Center, Beijing, China. In 2015, 2017 and 2018 he was also a DAAD visiting professor at the University of Antofagasta in Chile. He was chairman of the Life Science Working Group of the European Space Agency ESA.

Live and act

Gunga studied geology and palaeontology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster from 1973 to 1980 . In 1978 he was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for geological investigations in Central Spain . When he asked about the origin of gigantic beings like dinosaurs, he came to physiology. From 1979 to 1987 Gunga therefore studied medicine at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and the Free University of Berlin . From 1980 to 1982 he was an assistant at the Institute of Geology in the planetological research group Earth-Moon System in Münster . In 1989 he received his doctorate in Berlin with a thesis on the life and work of the Berlin physiologist Nathan Zuntz (1847–1920), taking into account its importance for the early history of altitude physiology and aeronautical medicine , and in 1997 with the work on the regulation of erythropoietin in humans under extreme laboratory conditions and field-physiological conditions habilitation . He completed his training in 2000 as a specialist in physiology .

In 1987 he joined the research group of the physiologist Karl Kirsch , who dealt with space medicine , among other things, and worked in the applied physiology research group until 1997 , most recently as a private lecturer . 2004 Gunga became a university professor with research interests space medicine, blood physiology, heart / circulatory physiology, renal physiology, comparative physiology in extreme environments at the Institute of Physiology of the Charité called ( Nathan Zuntz professor ) and was since 2008 Deputy Managing Director of the Institute of Physiology at the Benjamin Franklin campus of the Charité. In 2015 he became director of the Institute for Physiology of the Charié - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charité Cross Over (CCO). Gunga is also the spokesman for the Center for Space Medicine, in which scientific institutes, space companies and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) work together. Since 2013 he has been chairman of the "Program Committee of the German Aerospace Center" (DLR) in Cologne.

As a scientist, Gunga has participated in a large number of space missions and international studies. Among other things, he was involved in experiments on the ISS , the MIR , in bed rest studies and parabolic flights . Particularly noteworthy are the D-2 mission , the Mars500 study in Moscow and the MIR'92 and EUROMIR'94 missions.

In 2015 Gunga won the "Life Science Book Award" of the "International Academy of Astronautics" with the book "Human Physiology in Extreme Environments", Academic Press, Elsevier 2015.

Gunga is married, has three sons and lives in Berlin.

Memberships

  • 2000 Life Science Working Group - Advisory Board for the European Space Agency (ESA)
  • 2001 Member of the Exobiology Working Group (ESA)
  • 2003 Chairman of the Life Science Working Group at ESA
  • 2004 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Austrian Armed Forces
  • 2005 member of the NATO Expert Council Man in Extreme Environments
  • 2007 GoSpace team for industrial research in weightlessness in the field of life science
  • 2008 Scientific Program Committee of the German Aerospace Center (DLR)
  • 2008 Scientific Advisory Board for Sanitary and Health Care at the Federal Minister of Defense (Military Medical Advisory Board)
  • 2008 International Academy of Astronautics
  • 2009 European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC) of the European Science Foundation
  • 2012 Member of the “High-End Foreign Experts Recruitment Program” of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, China
  • 2012 Guest Professor at the Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
  • 2013 Chairman of the “Program Committee of the German Aerospace Center (DLR)”, Cologne
  • 2014 Guest Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Space Medicine Fundamentals and Application, China Astronaut Center, Beijing, China
  • 2015 Full member of the International Academy of Astronautics

Fonts

  • Human Physiology in Extreme Environments. Academic Press, Elsevier, 2015, ISBN 978-0-12-386947-0 , a Chinese version was published in 2018.
  • Heat balance and temperature regulation. In: H. Speckmann, J. Hescheler, R. Köhling (Ed.): Physiology. Elsevier, 2013, pp. 601-628.
  • Nathan Zuntz. His Life and Work in the Fields of High Altitude Physiology and Aviation Medicine. Elsevier, 2009, ISBN 978-0-12-374740-2 .
  • Life and work of the Berlin physiologist Nathan Zuntz (1847–1920) with special consideration of its importance for the early history of altitude physiology and aeronautical medicine. (= Treatises on the history of medicine and the natural sciences. 58). Matthiesen, Husum 1989, ISBN 3-7868-4058-X .
  • with M. Steinach and K. Kirsch: Space Medicine and Biology. In: W. Ley, K. Wittmann, L. Hallmann (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Raumfahrttechnik. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-41185-2 , chap. 7.6, pp. 575-588.
  • Too hot during the day and too light at night. What our body can do - and why it is overwhelmed today. Rowohlt, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-498-02540-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nadja Pastega: "Married are better for a group." Interview in: SonntagsZeitung , August 25, 2019.
  2. ↑ Reading sample (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Gunga, Hanns-Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German environmental and space physician, geologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Soest