Heinz-Erich Wichmann

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Heinz-Erich Wichmann (born April 20, 1946 in Elmshorn , often H.-Erich Wichmann ) is an epidemiologist and university professor .

education

H.-Erich Wichmann studied physics and medicine at the University of Cologne . In 1976 he was in theoretical physics at Peter Mittelstaedt to Dr. rer. nat. and in 1983 in medicine to Dr. med. PhD. Erich Wichmann completed his habilitation in biomathematics , medical documentation and statistics .

Academic career

From 1983 to 1988 he was head of the department for biostatistics at the Medical Institute for Environmental Hygiene at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . After that Wichmann was as director and head of to 1995 subject area occupational safety and environmental medicine at the University of Wuppertal operates. In 1990 he came to what is now the Helmholtz Center in Munich - German Research Center for Health and Environment (then: GSF), where he worked at the Institute for Epidemiology (EPI), whose central aim is to study the role of environmental influences and genetic predispositions on human beings Representing health with epidemiological methods works. In addition, he has been a C4 professor since 1995 and holds the chair for epidemiology (at the Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology [IBE] at the Medical Faculty; project / interdisciplinary also: Munich Center of Health Sciences / MC- Health]) at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Both chairs are run as a unit with a focus on the Neuherberg district of Oberschleißheim and headed by Wichmann in personal union .

He was president of epidemiological societies . He was also a member of important scientific advisory committees of the World Health Organization, the Maximum Workplace Concentration / MAK (Values) Commission and the Radiation Protection Commission . Wichmann's scientific work focuses on the discipline of epidemiology, which deals with the distribution of diseases in the population and the risk factors for these diseases. Environmental medicine and, more recently, genetic research and biobanking have emerged as special focuses .

Public work

Heinz-Erich Wichmann became known to the general public through his commitment as well as various publications on the fine dust problem, which were discussed from 2005 after the introduction of the stricter EU limit values ​​(e.g. for PM10). In this context, Wichmann always pointed out that the carbonaceous fine dust, such as that produced by diesel internal combustion engines, is the major health hazard for humans and less so the general fine dust, which is mainly of natural origin.

Works

In total, Wichmann lists over 916 scientific papers in PubMed (as of March 2016, all areas of work).

Honors

Wichmann has been honored with several national and international awards.

Amongst other things:

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personal data
SURNAME Wichmann, Heinz-Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wichmann, H.-Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German epidemiologist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Elmshorn