Stefan Kaufmann

Stefan is Director Emeritus at Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, and at Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany. Founding Director (1993), Director of Department of Immunology at Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin (1993 to 2019). Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Charité University Clinics Berlin, Germany. Faculty Fellow of Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. Doctor Honoris Causa, Marseille University, France. Former President of German Society for Immunology, European Federation of Immunological Societies, International Union of Immunological Societies. Scientific interests: immunity to bacterial pathogens with emphasis on tuberculosis and rational design of vaccines and biosignatures. Developer of a tuberculosis vaccine in phase III clinical efficacy trial. Numerous scientific awards. More than 900 publications with > 90,000 citations. Member of numerous professional societies, academies and editorial boards of scientific journals.