Michael Krawinkel MD

Michael B. Krawinkel is a professor emeritus of human nutrition with a focus on nutrition at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Hessen, Germany. After undergraduate education in human medicine and a doctoral degree (1977), Michael Krawinkel worked in pediatric university hospitals at Bonn and Kiel, Germany. In 1981-83 he was a medical officer in the Primary Health Care Program of the Southern Region of the Republic of Sudan. In 1991 he graduated as postdoctoral lecturer for pediatrics at Kiel University and in 1998 he was appointed a chair for ‘Human nutrition with a focus on nutrition in developing countries’. In 2016 he retired age-related. Besides lecturing in Giessen he also lectures at the University of Vienna, Austria, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. The research focus is on nutrition-related non-communicable diseases, improving complementary feeding, and provision of micronutrients through diverse diets.