Präsidialamt Team

President's Office

Präsidialamt Team
Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)

Obituary of Dr Renate Adam

Portrait photo of Dr Renate Adam in black and white. Portrait photo of Dr Renate Adam in black and white. Image: D. Siegel

We mourn the loss of our dear colleague who passed away on 15 November 2022.

We were shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the sudden death of Dr Renate Adam, former Head of the President's Office, who had only taken early retirement in the spring.

She was the soul of the University for more than 30 years. We will greatly miss her kind nature, her great helpfulness and her sense of humour.

We will honour her memory. Our heartfelt condolences go out to her relatives, especially her husband.

President of Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Walter Rosenthal, Prof. Dr
Portrait of Prof. Dr Walter Rosenthal
Universitätshauptgebäude, Room 1.02
Fürstengraben 1
07743 Jena
About

In 2014, Professor Walter Rosenthal, MD, became the first president of Friedrich Schiller University Jena after a distinguished career as a molecular pharmacologist and academic leader. He is recognised as a specialist in signal transduction (G-Proteins, G-protein-coupled receptors and anchoring proteins).

Born in Siegen, Germany (1954), Walter Rosenthal read Medicine at Justus Liebig University Giessen and spent his practical year at the Royal Free Hospital, School of Medicine, in London. After obtaining his doctorate in Giessen (1983), he started his postdoctoral research at Freie Universität Berlin, where he completed a Habilitation in the field of pharmacology (1990). He then spent two years doing research as a Heisenberg scholar and visiting professor at Baylor College, Houston, Texas (USA). From 1993 to 1996, he was Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Managing Director of the Rudolph Buchheim Institute of Pharmacology at Giessen University. In 1996, he became founding Director of what is now the Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP). Subsequently, he moved to the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin-Buch, a national research centre of the Helmholtz Association, becoming Scientific Director and Chair of the Board of Directors (2009). He was appointed full Professor at Freie Universität Berlin in 1998 and Professor at Charité Berlin in 2003. 

In 2014, Professor Rosenthal was elected the first President of Friedrich Schiller University Jena.  As President of the University of Jena, he is Chair of the Executive Board and represents the University itself. Since 2021, he has also been elected Vice-President for research, academic career paths and transfer of the German Rectors’ Conference.

From 2018 to 2022, he has chaired the Thuringian State Presidents' Conference, an association of state universities of Thuringia.

Among his distinctions, he was awarded membership of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2011) and of the Akademie gemeinnütziger Wissenschaften zu Erfurt (2018). He is an elected Senate member of the Leibniz Association (2017) and serves as Dean of the Max Planck Schools (2017). He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Tbilisi State University, Georgia (2017).

Walter Rosenthal is married and has three children.

Here you can find a tabular version of the curriculum vitae.pdf, 425 kb · de

Here you can download a portrait photo of Prof. Dr. Rosenthaljpg, 147 kb · de (Please note copyright! (C) Anne Günther, University of Jena).

Speeches and Greetings

President's Office

Domhardt, Christopher, Dr
Head of Office
Präsidialamt
Universitätshauptgebäude, Room 1.04
Fürstengraben 1
07743 Jena
Präsidialamt
Rudolph, Franca
Assistance
Präsidialamt
Universitätshauptgebäude, Room 1.03
Fürstengraben 1
07743 Jena
Präsidialamt
Tänzer, Evelyn
Assistance
Präsidialamt
Universitätshauptgebäude, Room 1.03
Fürstengraben 1
07743 Jena
Präsidialamt

Executive Assistant

No employees are assigned to this institution.

Office for Strategic Projects

Daube, Katja, Dr
Office for Strategic Projects
Präsidialamt
Universitätshauptgebäude, Room 1.21
Fürstengraben 1
07743 Jena
Präsidialamt

Office for Central Bodies

Heller, Thomas, PD Dr
Office for Central Bodies
Präsidialamt
Universitätshauptgebäude, Room 1.12
Fürstengraben 1
07743 Jena
Präsidialamt
President's Office (Präsidialamt)
University Main Building (Universitätshauptgebäude), Room 100-104
Fürstengraben 1
07743 Jena