Alma Zernecke is currently working as a Professor and Head at the University of Würzburg. She has completed his Ph.D. She is specialized in Cardiovascular Diseases. Alma Zernecke-Madsen, born in Munich in 1976, studied medicine at the LMU Munich and at Harvard Medical School in Boston. She then began her career as a doctor and scientist at RWTH Aachen University, where she also completed her habilitation. In 2009 she moved to the Rudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine at the University of Würzburg with a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation as head of a junior research group.
In 2012, Alma Zernecke-Madsen was then appointed to a professorship for vascular biology at the Department of Vascular Surgery at the Technical University of Munich. On January 1, 2014, she returned to the University of Würzburg - she followed the call to the Chair of Clinical Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry. Here she succeeds Professor Ulrich Walter, who has moved to the University of Mainz.