University training and degree

2006

DoctorState Exam in Human Medicine

2000-2006

Studies of Human Medicine

Advanced academic qualifications

2008

MD thesis from Institute for Immunology, CAU Kiel (Summa cum laude)

Postgraduate professional career

Since 2018

W2 Professorship for Clinical Cell Death Research

Since 2018

Heisenberg Professorship

Since 2016

Deputy director – Division of Nephrology - Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden

2014

“Habilitation” and “Venia legend” at the CAU (full faculty member)

2013

Senior consultant nephrologist (“Oberarzt”) – Kiel, Germany

2013

Board exam in Nephrology – Kiel, Germany

2012

Board exam in Internal Medicine – Kiel, Germany

Additional Information

Editorships:

Associate Editor: American Journal of Transplantation, Cell Death and Disease
Editorial Board Member: American Journal of Physiology – Renal Physiology
Guest Editor: Cell Death and Differentiation, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Awards:

Member of the „Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes“, 2001
Faculty award „Fakultätspreis der medizinischen Fakultät der CAU Kiel“, 2009
Award of the Dean of the Christian-Albrechts University „Dekanatspreis der CAU Kiel“, 2009
Beigel-Research Award „Beigel´scher Preis“, 2009
Research award of the German Society for Nephrology (DGfN), 2011
ASN Kidney week - faculty member (annually until today),2013
Best Poster award at the German Society of Nephrology (DGfN), 2013
Excellence Cluster “Inflammation at Interfaces” - full member, 2013
Young Innovator Award - American Society of Transplantation (AST), 2014
“Carl-Ludwig-Preis” of the German Society of Nephrology (DGfN), 2014
STS-Science-Award (Signal Transduction Society), 2014
Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology (FASN), 2015
“Franz-Volhard-Preis” of the German Society of Nephrology (DGfN)*, 2015
“GSK Award” at Cold Spring Harbor Asia meeting on Cell Death, 2015
Honorary Member of the European Academy of Tumor Immunology (EATI), 2016
“Rudolf Pichlmayr Preis” - German Society of Transplantation (DTG)*, 2016
ERC Starting Grant rate “A” – 2018 reserve list candidate

*A. Linkermann is the only person who received both the two single most prestigious European honors in Transplantation (Rudolf-Pichlmayr-Price) and Nephrology (Franz-Volhard-Price)

Reviewer for

62 different journals verified, 231 verified peer reviews (Publons Top Peer Reviewer 2018 – open access account available) – including, but not limited to:
Nature, Cell, The Lancet, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Chemical Biology, PNAS, Nature Communications, Journal of Clinical Investigation, ACS Central Science, Cell Chemical Biology, JASN, Kidney International, Trends in Cell Biology, Trends in Moleuclar Medicine