Prof. Dr. Malte Spielmann

Postgraduate professional career

2026 Professor and Chair of Human Genetics (W3) at the Institute of Medical Genetics and Human Genetics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany, Head of the Spielmann Lab on the topic of “Human Molecular Genomics”
2020 – 2025 Professor and Chair of Human Genetics at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein at campus Kiel & campus Lübeck 
2018 – 2021 Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin
2019 – 2020 DFG Heisenberg Program at the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2016 – 2018 DFG Research Fellow at the Dep. of Genome Sciences, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, USA
2010 – 2016 Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin
2010 – 2016 Residency in Medical Genetics at the Institute of Medical Genetics and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Advanced academic qualifications

2016 Habilitation at the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Mentor: Prof. Stefan Mundlos: ‘The role of non-coding mutations and structural variants in congenital limb malformations’
2010 Doctorate (Dr. med.) University of Bochum, Germany
Mentor: Prof. Steinsträßer

University training and degree

2016 Board certification Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Prof. Mundlos
2009 German Medical Exam (Approbation)
2006 - 2007 M.D. thesis studies, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, Prof. Erkisson 
2003 - 2009 Undergraduate studies in Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany

Academic Distinctions

2026    Einstein Professor, Berlin, Germany
2025    Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
2025    External scientific member of the Max-Planck Society
2024    Oasis distinguished lecture Zhejiang University, China 
2021    Teaching Award of the Lübeck Medical School
2019    Conference Award German Society of Human Genetics
2018 - 2020    DFG Heisenberg Programm, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
2016 - 2018    DFG Res. Fellowship at Uni. of Washington, Seattle, USA
2015    Young Investigator Award of the International Skeletal Dysplasia Society
2012    Young Investigator Award of the European Society of Human Genetics
2010    Doctoral Thesis Award University of Bochum, Germany

Activities in the Research System

2024 - 2028    DFG Review Board Medicine
2025 - 2026    Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Review Board Member
2025 - 2026          Member external Scientific Advisory Board of the Department of Human Genetics at KU Leuven, Belgium
2024 - 2028          Member Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Center Borstel, Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences
2022 - present     Member of the academic Senate of the University of Lübeck
2022 - present    Ombudsperson for good scientific practice University of Lübeck
2025 - 2029    Member of the Program Committee of the ESHG
2022 - present       Co-Editor Medizinische Genetik and Human Genetics
2020 - 2024    BMBF Review Board for the 3Rs

Ad hoc Reviewer

Journals

Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, Cell, Cell Stem Cell, Molecular Cell, American Journal of Human Genetics, Journal of Clinical Investigation, PLOS Genetics, Human Molecular Genetics, Eu. Journal of Human Genetics, Am. Journal of Medical Genetics, Journal of Medical Genetics, Human Mutation, Clinical Genetics

Grants

DFG, BMBF, Deutsche Krebshilfe, Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung, Welcome Trust (UK), MRC (UK), The Research Foundation-Flanders (Belgium), National Research Council Canada (NRC), Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Foundation for Polish Science (Poland), SNSF

Additional Career Information

Year of birth of the children

2012, 2013, 2017, 2020, 2024

Parental leave

01.2013 - 07.2013, 07.2014 - 01.2015, 07.2018 - 10.2018