Wiebke Ginter

Programme Officer, DFG (German Research Foundation), Bonn

Wiebke Ginter studied biology at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena with major subjects in genetics and minor subjects in immunology, pharmacology and economics. She went to France for an Erasmus exchange year at the University of Montpellier. The experiments for her degree dissertation she completed at the University of Oxford in England. Wiebke Ginter accomplished her PhD at the TWINCORE Institute for Infection Immunology in Hannover and subsequently worked at the Hannover Medical School as coordinator of the LISA summer academy and the masters programme Biomedicine. Since 2016 Wiebke Ginter is employed at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) as programme officer. Her scientific areas of responsibility are Gastroenterology and Nephrology. In these fields she supports researchers within different funding programmes: From early career support via individual research grants to support of coordinated programmes. She is responsible for the counselling of scientists, contact with reviewers, preparation of the decisions of the different decision-making bodies and for accompanying funded projects.


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