Our Team
Director
Prof. Dr. med. Michael Hoelscher
Director, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine
+49 (0)89 4400-59800
PD Dr. med. Camilla Rothe
Senior physician, Consultant in Tropical Medicine, Deputy Institute Director, Head of Outpatient Clinic
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
Outpatient Clinic
You can book most appointments at our University Outpatient Clinic for Tropical Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Travel Medicine online. If a particular type of appointment can only be booked by phone or email (e.g., occupational health checkups before or after a work-related stay), this will be indicated accordingly. For more information, please visit the following website:
Contact and Office Hours (Secretariat)
089 4400-59870
tropinst@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Monday–Thursday
8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM*
Friday
8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Leopoldstraße 5
80802 Munich
*Please note that on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, during the travel and vaccination clinic hours (3:30–7:30 p.m.), our the secretariat is only open until 4:00 p.m.
Management
PD Dr. med. Camilla Rothe
Senior physician, Consultant in Tropical Medicine, Deputy Institute Director, Head of Outpatient Clinic
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
Dr. med. Mirjam Schunk
Senior Physician, Deputy Head of the Outpatient Clinic, Head of the Clinical Trials Unit
Secretariat
Elke Fischer
Secretariat
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
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Anja Hansemann
Secretariat
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
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Lina Karakoyun
Secretariat
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
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Marieluise Molnar
Study nurse
Gisela Schödl-Prade
Outpatient Clinic Administrative Staff
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
Nicole Waidmann
Secretariat
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
PD Dr. med. Camilla Rothe
Senior physician, Consultant in Tropical Medicine, Deputy Institute Director, Head of Outpatient Clinic
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
PD Dr. med. Günter Fröschl
Head of the Teaching & Training Unit (T&TU), Board Member, Center for International Health (CIH)
Dr. med. Astrid Niederfahrenhorst
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Dr. med. Mirjam Schunk
Senior Physician, Deputy Head of the Outpatient Clinic, Head of the Clinical Trials Unit
Dr. med. Rahel Spindler (on maternity leave)
Specialist in internal medicine, outpatient physician
Dr. med. Tanja Schwamberger
Consultant in Internal Medicine
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Dr. med. Claudia Wallrauch
MSc, Specialist in Hygiene, Medical Microbiology, and Internal Medicine
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Robert Cohen
Travel Medicine Clinic
Dr. med. Elisabeth Güttler
Specialist in general medicine
Dr. med. Daphne Hofmann
Specialist in Internal Medicine
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Christian Janke, MSc MPH
Resident Doctor
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Dr. med. Franziska Winter
Travel Medicine Consultant
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Dr. med. Stephanie Zellerer
Specialist in Internal Medicine
Diagnostic Laboratory
Management
Prof. Dr. med. Gisela Bretzel
Senior physician, head of laboratory (diagnostic laboratories)
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
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Laboratory Team
Heike Fensterseifer
CTA
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Kerstin Helfrich
BTA, deputy head TA, deputy QMB
Simone Lehn
MTLA, senior TA
Tanja Loibl
MTLA
Karina Maier
MTLA
Marijana Okadar
MTLA
Malkin Saar
MSc, QMB
+49 (0)89 2180-3512
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Angelika Thomschke
CTA
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Tamaz Tsulaja
PhD student
Roswitha Uhlstein
MTLA
Andrea Volgger
MTLA
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Laboratory Assistants
Alexandros Alagkiozidis
Laboratory help
Mila Nikolic
Gordana Ivancevic
Research
Management
Prof. Dr. med. Michael Hoelscher
Director, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine
+49 (0)89 4400-59800
Staff (A–Z)
PD Dr. med. Martin Alberer
Affiliated scientist
Dr. rer. nat. Ulrike Amann-Gassner
Clinical Project Manager, TB Clinical Trials Unit, EX-DR TB Project
089 4400-59831
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Tejaswi
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Data Manager
+49 (0)89 4400-59841
Dr. med. Rebekka Astudillo, DTMIH
Sponsor Medical Expert
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Abhishek Bakuli, PhD
Affiliated Researcher, Statistician
Erlandy Basson, MD
Sponsor Medical Expert, study physician
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Dr. rer. nat. Olga Baranov
Bioinformatics Manager
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Dr. med. Anna-Lisa Behnke
Sponsor Medical Expert
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Dr. med. Marcus Beißner
Affiliated Researcher
Dr. Peter Braun
Group Leader, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP, Penzberg
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Dr. Simone Braun
Group Leader, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP, Penzberg
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Claudia Bräu-Heberger
CTA, Research
Prof. Dr. med. Gisela Bretzel
Senior physician, head of laboratory (diagnostic laboratories)
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Noemi Castelletti
Head of the Data Science Unit
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Dr. Mkunde Chachage
PhD, MSc, NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Center, Tanzania
Catarina Cova-Miserok
Project Manager, DECISION Study
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Fidelina Cumbe Zekoll
Data Manager
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Mikaela Coleman, PhD
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Dr. med. vet. Julia Dreisbach
Scientific Program Manager, BTZ-043
Kira Elsbernd
Epidemiology
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Tabea Eser
cand. rer. nat.
Heike Fensterseifer
CTA
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PD Dr. med. Günter Fröschl
Head of the Teaching & Training Unit (T&TU), Board Member, Center for International Health (CIH)
Aravind Radhakrishnan Geetha
Clinical Data Manager
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Dr. rer. nat. Otto Geisenberger
Unit Head Project Management
Prof. Dr. Christof Geldmacher
Unit Head - Research Group "Infection and Immunity"
Eva Grüner
Wissenschaftlerin/Scientist
Dr. Akshita Gupta, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow DECIDE-TB
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Tamara Haanraads
PhD candidate
Marlene Hannes, MSc
Research Assistant/Doctoral Candidate
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PD Dr. rer. nat. Kathrin Held
Unit Head - Research Group "Infection and Immunity"
Dr. Arlett Heiber
DZIF Site Manager Munich and TTU Manager Tuberculosis
PD Dr. med. Norbert Heinrich
Senior Physician, Unit Head, Tuberculosis Diagnostics & Drug Development
Amy Heilman
Clinical Project Manager
+49(0)89 4400-59898
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Kerstin Helfrich
BTA, deputy head TA, deputy QMB
Prof. Dr. med. KH. Herbinger
external employee, affiliated scientist
Dr. Olena Ivanova, MD, MPH, PhD
Affiliated researcher
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Christian Janke, MSc MPH
Resident Doctor
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Christoph Killing
Statistician
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Niculina Kriewall
BTA
Professor Katharina Kranzer
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Dr. med. Arne Kroidl
Specialist in internal medicine, infectiology, unit head: HIV and co-infections
Prof. Dr. med. Inge Kroidl
Unit Head, Research Group Helminth Infections and Co-Infections
Dr. Rebecca Kisch
Epidemiology
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Niculina Kriewall
BTA
Christoph Leschczyk
Wissenschaftler/Scientist
Gabriele Liegl
MTLA, Max von Pettenkofer Institute of the LMU
Luming Lin
PhD student
Karoline Löffel
Study Coordinator / Clinical Project Manager (CPM)
Dr. Rolanda Londt
Lab Manager, Wissenschaftlerin/Scientist
Dr. Wandini Lutchmun
Affiliate TB researcher
Mairi McClean
PhD candidate
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Dr. rer. nat. Wilbert Mbuya
NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Center, Tanzania
Dr. rer. nat. Anna-Maria Mekota
Clinical Project Manager
+49 (0)89 4400-59817
Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Meyer
Scientific Program Manager
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Dr. rer. nat. Susanne Mirold-Mei
Clinical Project Manager/Regulatory Affairs Manager
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Mariana Müller
Clinical Project Manager (on parental leave)
+49 (0)89 4400-59831
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Dr. med. Leonie Nabben
Clinical Research Physician
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Ivan Noreña MD, MSc
Study physician; Sponsor Medical Expert Tuberculosis
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Dr. Anna-Cathrine Neumann-Cip
Research assistant, deputy head of working group
Ruth Niedermeier
MAI study/Dr. med. candidate
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Dr. med. Laura Olbrich, DPhil
Unit Head New TB Diagnostics, Sponsor Medical Expert
Dr. Florian Opperer
Researcher, TUM/LMU Clinic Cooperation project
Dr. Susanna Oswald
Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP
Laura Páramo MD
Study physician; Sponsor Medical Expert Tuberculosis
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Francesco Picasso
Statistician/Doctoral Candidate
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Dr. rer. biol. hum. Bettina Pitter
Project Manager
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Dr. Michael Plank
Project Manager
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Dr. med. univ. Michel Pletschette, MSc, DTMH
Specialist in microbiology and infection epidemiology
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Dr. rer. nat. Gerhard Pöpperl (LL.M.)
Clinical Project Manager / Alliance Manager
089 4400-59868
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Arpita Pujar
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PD Dr. med. Andrea Rachow
Specialist in Internal Medicine and Tropical Medicine, Unit Head "TB Epidemiology and Clinical Cohorts"
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Martina Rauscher
Alia Razid, MSc
PhD Candidate
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Dr. Christina Reinkemeyer
Project Manager
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Dr. agr. Friedrich Rieß
Affiliated Researcher
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Sandra Rjeschni
Ph.D. student, doctoral candidate, Dr. rer. nat.
PD Dr. med. Camilla Rothe
Senior physician, Consultant in Tropical Medicine, Deputy Institute Director, Head of Outpatient Clinic
+49 (0)89 4400-59870
Raquel Rubio-Acero, PhD
Biologist, PostDoc
+49 (0)89 4400 59858
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Dr. Angela Ruland
Clinical Project Manager
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Malkin Saar
MSc, QMB
+49 (0)89 2180-3512
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Rheka Shambhu
Clinical Data Manager
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Dr. med. Mirjam Schunk
Senior Physician, Deputy Head of the Outpatient Clinic, Head of the Clinical Trials Unit
Lia Spotti
Assistenzärztin/Resident Doctor
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Sarah Sternkopf
BTA
Christoph Sticha-Kaiser
Ph.D. Student
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Angelika Thomschke
CTA
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Tamaz Tsulaja
PhD student
Danni Wang, MSc
cand. rer. nat.
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Dr. med. univ. Maximilian Wekerle
Sponsor Medical Expert
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PD Dr. med. Andreas Wieser
Senior physician, working group leader, deputy head of laboratory diagnostics
Manuela Zwerenz
Study Coordinator
- Data Management and Analysis, Statistics, Epidemiology
- Diagnostic Research: Neglected Mycobacterial Diseases
- HIV, Co-infections, and Vaccine Trials
- Humanitarian Aid and Development Cooperation
- Vaccine Development
- Infectious Disease Immunology (Infection & Immunity)
- International & Global Health
- Clinical Tropical Medicine, Travel and Migration Medicine
- New Analytical and Diagnostic Methods in Infectious and Tropical Medicine
- One Health: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
- SARS-CoV-2 Research
- Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
- Tuberculosis: New Diagnostics
- Tuberculosis: Drug Development
- Tuberculosis: Epidemiology
- Tuberculosis Research
- Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs): Helminth Infections and Co-infections
Clinical Trials Unit
089 4400-59850
impfstudien-tropeninstitut@med.uni-muenchen.de
Leopoldstraße 5
80802 Munich
Director
Dr. med. Mirjam Schunk
Senior Physician, Deputy Head of the Outpatient Clinic, Head of the Clinical Trials Unit
Collaborations
German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) – Munich Campus
Prof. Dr. med. Michael Hoelscher
Director, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine
+49 (0)89 4400-59800
Dr. Arlett Heiber
DZIF Site Manager Munich and TTU Manager Tuberculosis
Dr. Simone Braun
Group Leader, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP, Penzberg
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Dr. Peter Braun
Group Leader, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP, Penzberg
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Dr. Jessica Barthel
Clinical Project Manager, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP
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Dr. Susanna Oswald
Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP
Jil Römer
BTA, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP
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Dr. Thomas Seeholzer
Research Project Manager, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP
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Dr. Sabine Suppmann
Group Leader, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP-IIP, Penzberg
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Teaching and Training Unit
Head of the Teaching & Training Unit
PD Dr. med. Günter Fröschl
Head of the Teaching & Training Unit (T&TU), Board Member, Center for International Health (CIH)
Team
Adea Borova
Ph.D. International Health Program Coordinator
+49 (0)89 4400 59830
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Carmen Dumitrescu
tropEd Secretariat Coordinator and Coordinator of the Humanitarian Symposium Munich series
+49 (0)89 4400 59828
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Emily Garsleitner, M.Sc.
Coordinator of the DAAD EPOS Scholarship Program and the Else-Kröner-Fresenius-Foundation-funded Leprosy in Ethiopia Project
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Vahuka Valiyakath
Masters Program Coordinator T&TU
+49 (0)89 4400 59815
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Central Departments
presse.tropeninstitut@med.uni-muenchen.de
Executive Assistant
Jasmin Gezgin
Assistant to the Director Prof. Michael Hoelscher
+49 (0)89 4400-59800
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Administration and Logistics
Thomas Hauke
Administration (financial administration, third-party funds)
+49 (0)89 4400-59836
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Petra Schneider
Administration
+49 (0)89 4400-59802
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Head of Finance
Jan Wildt
Head of Financial Administration, "International Medicine & Public Health"
+49 (0)89 4400-59818
Team
Verena Czirnich
Financial Administration, Scientific Administrator DZIF
+49 (0)89 4400-59838
Thomas Hauke
Administration (financial administration, third-party funds)
+49 (0)89 4400-59836
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Sebastian Kressierer
Finance Administration, "International Medicine & Public Health"
+49 (0)89 4400-59824
089 4400-59839
IT
cand. med. Simon Winter
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Dietrich von Witzleben
IT Manager (Outpatient Clinic location, Leopoldstrasse 5)
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Contact Quality Management
Dr. rer. nat. Susanne Vejda
Head of Quality Management
Cornelia Lüer
Quality Manager
Contact Quality Management
Dr. rer. nat. Susanne Vejda
Head of Quality Management
Cornelia Lüer
Quality Manager
Press Contact
089 4400-59839/-41
presse.tropeninstitut@med.uni-muenchen.de
Communications Management
Judith Eckstein
Senior Communications Manager
(+49) 089 4400-59839
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Tina Shaw
Communications Manager/Co-Lead Work Package 11, UNITE4TB
089 4400-59841
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Contact Project Management
Dr. rer. nat. Otto Geisenberger
Unit Head Project Management
Contact Quality Management
Dr. rer. nat. Susanne Vejda
Head of Quality Management
Cornelia Lüer
Quality Manager
Legal
Andrea Zwurtschek
Legal Counsel
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Dr. rer. nat. Gerhard Pöpperl (LL.M.)
Clinical Project Manager / Alliance Manager
089 4400-59868
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