Wolfgang A. Linke PhD

Wolfgang Linke graduated with a PhD from the University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) and received postdoctoral training at the University of Washington in Seattle (USA) for 3 years. In 1994 he became Research Assistant Professor at the Institute of Physiology, University of Heidelberg (Germany), where he stayed until 2003, interrupted by sabbaticals at the Mayo Clinic Rochester (USA) and Columbia University New York (USA). He was appointed Full Professor and Head of the Physiology & Biophysics Group at the University of Muenster (Germany) from 2003 until 2009. Between 2009 and 2017 he was Department Chair and Professor for Cardiovascular Physiology at Ruhr University Bochum (Germany). Since 2017, he is Professor of Physiology and Director of the Institute of Physiology II at the University of Muenster (Germany). He also holds a Professorship in Cardiac Mechanotransduction at the Heart Center, University Medicine, in Goettingen (Germany). His main research interests include basic and translational aspects of heart failure development, cardiac myocyte mechanical function, mechanosensitivity, and protein quality control. Among others, he is a Fellow of the International Society for Heart Research (ISHR) and elected member (Academician) of the Academy of Sciences, Goettingen (Germany).