Jakob Linseisen#
| Membership Number: | 7016 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uni-augsburg.de/med/epidemiologie |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9386-382X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - present Chairholder, Chair of Epidemiology, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, at University Hospital Augsburg
- 2016 - 2020 Chairholder, Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (transformed to Augsburg)
- 2018 - 2022 Head of the Independent Research Group "Clinical Epidemiology", Helmholtz Centre Munich
- 2009 - 2018 Head of the working group "National Cohort"; Deputy Head Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre Munich
- 2004 - 2009 Head of the working group "Nutritional Epidemiology", Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg
- 2002 - 2004 Head of the Independent Unit "Human Nutrition and Cancer Prevention", Technical University of Munich
- 2000 - 2001 Senior scientist, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg
- 1988 - 1999 Research Associate, Institute of Nutrition Sciences, Technical University of Munich
Fields of Scholarship
- Nutritional epidemiology
- Population-based (cohort) studies
- Diet and diabetes risk
- Cardio-metabolic diseases
- Risk stratification by metabotyping
- Diet and cancer risk
- (Nutritional) biomarker research, including omics data
- Disease prevention
- Dietary assessment
- Diet and metabolism
- Non-communicable disease epidemiology
- Health care research based on patient cohorts and epidemiologic registers
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Scientific advisory board of the FENS congress 2023 in Belgrade
- 2023 Guest Editor of the Journal “Lipids and Health and Disease”
- 2021 Presentation of research line "Metabotyping" at the NASEM (US National Academies, Health and Medicine)
- 2020 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
- 2019 President of the German Nutrition Society (DGE)
- 2019 Member of the Steering board of FENS (Federation of European Nutrition Societies)
- 2018 Advisory board member of several international review panels
- 2019 Head of the expert group Nutrition & Lifestyle, NAKO Health Study
- 2015 Scientific advisory board of the FENS congress 2015 in Berlin
- 2012 Co-applicant of the project ‘German National Cohort’; Scientific coordinator in this project
- 2002 Award for excellent training of students (“Beste Lehre”), Technical University of Munich
- 1999 Helmut-Hänel prize of the German Nutrition Society
- 1997 Prize for the best publication, German Society of Clinical Nutrition
