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Hans Hauner is a Professor of Nutritional Medicine at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where he has served since 2003. He leads the Kröner Fresenius Center for Nutritional Medicine located at TUM’s Klinikum Rechts der Isar and the Weihenstephan Center for Life and Food Sciences. His research primarily focuses on diet-related chronic diseases, particularly obesity and type 2 diabetes. He explores the effects of nutrition during pregnancy and the fetal programming of metabolic conditions, as well as the functional genomics of obesity-related risk genes. Before his appointment at TUM, he studied medicine at the University of Regensburg and TUM, completed his postdoctoral training there, and became a senior consultant at the German Diabetes Center affiliated with Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf. Hauner is a member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) and has been involved in national competence networks on obesity as a spokesperson. He has received several accolades, including the Friedrich-Wassermann Award from the European Association for the Study of Obesity in 2021 and the DAG Medal from the German Adiposity Society in 2015.
Technical University of Munich • Munich, Germany
Director of the Kröner Fresenius Center for Nutritional Medicine.