Professor Ralf Paus - personal details

After his medical studies at the Unversities of Wuerzburg, Berlin and Vienna, MD thesis work at the University of South Florida, Tampa, USA, and an internship at the University Hospitals of Basle and Zurich, Switzerland, Ralf graduated from the Free University of Berlin (1987).

Following post-doctoral research at Yale University (1987-90), Ralf trained as a clinical dermatologist in Berlin, where he became consultant dermatologist and junior faculty at the Charité University Hospital. From 1999-2004 Ralf served as Professor and Vice-Chair of the Dept. of Dermatology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg. He was Visiting Scholar at the University of California, San Diego (1992), Visiting Professor at the Dept. of Molecular Medicine at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Munich-Martinsried (2005), and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Bradford until 2010 and again since 2012.

After taking up  his current position as Head of Experimental Dermatology, Dept. of Dermatology, University of Luebeck, Germany (2005), Ralf  joined the University of Manchester in 2008 as Professor of Cutaneous Medicine).

Ralf has been Editor of Experimental Dermatology since 2007.
 

Professor Ralf Paus researches into hair disorders, skin neuroendocrinology,  and the science and applications of stem cells residing in the skin. He spends 0.2 of his time at the University of Manchester and 0.8 at the University of Luebeck, Germany, facilitating the highest level international research in this area.