Prof. Dr. med. Susanne Völter-Mahlknecht
Department of Occupational, Social and Preventive Medicine
Professor Susanne Völter-Mahlknecht took over as professor and head of the Institute of Occupational, Social and Preventive Medicine on the first of October 2024.
‘Work of the future – a challenge for health’
Her work focuses on research and further development in the field of health-promoting work design and occupational health.
Besides the location in Göttingen:
University Medical Center Göttinge
Department of Occupational, Social and Preventive Medicine
Waldweg 37 Entrance B
37073 Göttingen
The University Medical Center Göttingen is also establishing a location at the Wolfsburg Medical Campus with the professorship.
Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
Poststraße 19
38440 Wolfsburg
Background
Prof. Susanne Völter-Mahlknecht
- 2024 Head of the Institute for Occupational, Social and Preventive Medicine at Göttingen University Medical Centre
- 2018 Appointed to the Chair of Occupational Medicine, Charité – Head of the Institute for Occupational Medicine, Charité University Berlin
- 2016 Additional qualification in social medicine, Social Medicine Unit, Tübingen University Hospital
- 2013 Appointed Adjunct Professor, University of Tübingen
- 2007 Habilitation (Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine, Environmental Medicine): ‘Investigations into the pathogenesis and prevention of vibration-induced vasospastic syndrome (VVS)’, Institute for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University of Mainz
- 2006 Specialist in occupational medicine, Institute for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University of Mainz
- 2002 Additional qualification in allergology, University Dermatology Clinic, Tübingen
- 2001 Specialist in dermatology and venereology, University Dermatology Clinics, Freiburg and Tübingen
- 1998 Stay abroad at New York University, New York, and Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia
- 1997 Licence to practise medicine, University of Tübingen
- 1996 Doctoral thesis for the degree of Doctor of Medicine: ‘Modulation of growth behaviour and controlled cell death of melanoma cells B16-F10 by cytokines and cytostatic drugs’, University Radiology Clinic, Department of Radiation Biology, University of Tübingen
- 1988 - 1995 Studied human medicine, University of Tübingen