Simone Fulda

Simone Fulda has been president of Kiel University since October 2020. She is a doctor, who is specialized in pediatric oncology and has studied in Germany and abroad, for example, in Ireland and the USA. She has also worked abroad as a postdoc, among other places in France. In the course of a Heisenberg fellowship and a research professorship from the German Research Foundation (DFG), Simone Fulda early on had the opportunity to devote herself exclusively to life science research.

She was director of the Institute for Experimental Cancer Research in Pediatrics and Professor of Experimental Tumor Research at the Goethe University, Frankfurt. She has published over 380 scientific publications and book articles, led numerous national and international collaborative research projects, and is a member of the National Academy of Science Leopoldina. She is active in numerous national and international scientific and science policy advisory bodies and organizations and has been chair of the Commission for Research Information in Germany since 2021 and was a member of the German Council of Science from 2012 to 2018.

Since 2018, she has also been able to contribute her expertise as Vice President for Research and Academic Infrastructure at Goethe University Frankfurt, before being elected President of Kiel University in 2020.