Apl. Prof. Dr. sc. hum. Volker Winkler

MSc biol.

After his studies in biology Volker Winkler did his PhD within the DFG graduate program 793 ‘Epidemiology of communicable and chronic, non-communicable diseases and their interrelationships’. In 2015, he became Deputy Head of the unit ’Epidemiology and Biostatistics’ within the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health and one year later, he received the venia legendi in epidemiology. Since 2019, he is co-leading the crosscutting research group on non-communicable diseases and later he became leader of the research group ’Epidemiology of Transition’.

Considerations of the health and its determinants of population groups facing major changes are his main interests. He focuses on migrants, on non-communicable diseases and on the analysis of longitudinal data including the development of methods for the scientific analysis of register data. Generally, his research as well as his teaching activities focus on topics using quantitative methods. Furthermore, he is co-PI and the coordinator of the Heidelberg Graduate School of Global Health which aims to provide medical students with an opportunity to engage in global health research.

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