Michael Madeja

Michael Madeja (born May 13, 1962 in Detmold ) is a German neuroscientist , professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main and Scientific Director of the Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation .

Professional background

Michael Madeja studied human medicine at the University of Münster from 1981 to 1987 . He received his license to practice medicine in 1987.

From 1987 to 2000 he worked - initially as a research assistant and from 1991 as an assistant - at the Institute for Physiology at the University of Münster under the direction of Erwin-Josef Speckmann. In 1988 he received his doctorate with the grade " summa cum laude ", completed his habilitation in physiology in 1994, was on research stays at the Karolinska Institute near Stockholm in 1998 and was awarded an extraordinary professorship in 1999 .

In 2000 he moved to the non-profit Hertie Foundation in Frankfurt am Main , where he became head of the foundation's neuroscientific funding area while continuing his neurophysiological laboratory at the University of Münster. In 2004 he became Managing Director of the Hertie Foundation, completed his habilitation at the University of Frankfurt and moved his neurophysiological laboratory to Frankfurt. In 2008 he also took over the management of all university projects at the Hertie Foundation, and from 2014 also of the education and integration projects. In 2017 he left the Hertie Foundation and became Scientific Director of the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Foundation .

Work areas

In his scientific work, Michael Madeja works primarily with electrophysiological and molecular biological techniques in the field of experimental epilepsy research and on questions of the structure and function of voltage-controlled ion channels .

Michael Madeja is responsible for building up the Hertie Foundation to become the leading and largest private funding institution for brain research in Germany. Since 2000, the neuroscientific department of the Hertie Foundation u. a. Founded five institutes, established the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research in Tübingen, established the first senior professorship in Germany and reformed the foundation's multiple sclerosis research.

Publications

Michael Madeja has published more than 50 articles in international mainly neuroscientific journals. In addition, he also writes articles about the foundation's work as well as content-related and organizational issues relating to brain research in daily newspapers and broader publications, and speaks on radio and television on issues relating to brain research.

In 2010 he published “The Little Book of the Brain”, which is intended for non-scientifically trained readers and presents the functions of the brain, its diseases and the methods of brain research in an easily understandable way. He dispenses with technical terms and uses many comparisons to translate the brain functions into the everyday world of experience. Other books are "My Papa is a Brain Researcher" and "Think! Astounding Questions and Answers about the Brain" as first author and "Brain Research - What Can It Really Do?" as editor.

Memberships

Michael Madeja is a member of the Board of Trustees and the Supervisory Board of the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research in Tübingen, the Board of Trustees of the Frankfurt Literature House , the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden and the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and the Board of Trustees of the Society of German Friends of the Weizmann Institute . He was also a former member of the Council of the Doctorate School in Physiology, Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Siena in Italy as well as Chairman of the Board of the START Foundation and member of the Board of Directors of the Hertie School of Governance . He is also a member of the German Physiological Society , the Society for Neuroscience and the Neuroscientific Society .

Awards

Michael Madeja received the prize of the Society for Epilepsy Research in 1989 for his doctoral thesis, received the Research Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1990 and was voted “Teacher of the Year” in 1999 by the Medical Faculty of the University of Münster.

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Individual evidence

^ Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung , board members

personal data
SURNAME	Madeja, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German neuroscientist, professor at the University of Frankfurt and managing director of the non-profit Hertie Foundation
DATE OF BIRTH	May 13, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Detmold

[1] Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung , board members