Joachim Heinrich
General information
Name: Joachim Heinrich
Title: Prof. Dr.
Born: 12.03.1952 in Germany
Children: 2
Current employment status: Senior Consultant at University of Munich (LMU)
Address: Institute of Occupational, Social, and Environmental Medicine
Ziemssenstrasse 5
80336 Munich
Telephone: +49 89 440053251
E-mail:
[email protected]
Academic education
1982-1986 Postgraduate Training in Biomathematics and statistics in medicine, Berlin, Germany
1970 – 1974 Study of Mathematics, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Jena
Scientific degrees and employment
2015 - present Honorary Professorship (Level E) at Melbourne University
2014 - present Senior Consultant at University of Munich (LMU)
2011 - 2014 Acting director of Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg/Munich
1992 - 2011 Group leader, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg/Munich
1990 - 1992 Scientist, University of Wuppertal
1983 - 1989 Group leader, Department of Preventive Cardiology, Medical School Erfurt
1982 PhD in Epidemiology, Medical School Erfurt
1974 - 1983 Scientist, Medical School Erfurt
Research area
• Long-term and short-term effects of ambient air pollution on several health parameters
• Measurement and monitoring of ambient air pollution and assessment of exposure to ambient air pollution
• Determinants of asthma and allergies (including indoor biocontaminants, dietary factors, life-style related factors)
• Longitudinal data analysis
Teaching
• Lecturer in Environmental Epidemiology at Ludwigs-Maximilians University, on Epidemiolgy at Technical University München and University of Mainz
• Supervisor of doctoral students
Miscellaneous
• Member of several Review Panels for German Ministries such as the BMBF, the German Research Foundation, the EU, the Welcome trust, several national research funding institutions, WHO and other funding agencies
• Associate editor and member of editorial boards of several scientific journals
• Reviewer for numerous scientific journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Environmental Health Perspectives, JACI, Allergy, etc
• Member of steering committee of several national and international scientific research projects and consortia
• International ranking of worldwide leading researchers on asthma on rank 16; top 10 ranking in air pollution epidemiology authors (Zell et al J Occup Med Toxicol. 2010; 5: 5.)
Publications (more than 1000 papers in peer reviewed journals, h-index: 141 (scopus) and 177 (google scholar)
Scientific Collaborations
Long-lasting collaborations with University of British Columbia, Vancouver (M. Brauer) and US EPA, Chapel Hill (H. Koren, L. NEAS), ISglobal, Barcelona (JM Anto, J. Sunyer, M. Kogevinas, P. Dadvand), Imperial College London (P. Burney, D. Jarvis), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (G. Pershagen, E. Melen), University of Utrecht (B. Brunekreef, G. Hoek) and several further European and German research institutions,
