Vice-president for research and support for emerging academics

Prof Dr Ernst Tamm has been vice-president for research and support for emerging academics since 2020. In his role as Vice President, his responsibilities include

• research matters and
• the support for young academics.
• The vice-president for research and support for emerging academics is the chairman of the Research Council.

Ernst Tamm (born 1959) is an expert in eye diseases. Tamm studied medicine at Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), where he gained his doctorate in 1987. After his habilitation in 1993, he worked as an assistant professor  in Anatomy and Embryology at FAU. From 1995 to 1998, he was a Heisenberg Fellow at the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. From 1999 to 2004, he held a C3 professorship for molecular anatomy and embryology at FAU. Since 2004, Ernst Tamm has been a full professor and holder of the Chair of Human Anatomy and Embryology at the University of Regensburg. From 2013 to 2015, he was Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Pre-Clinical Medicine at the UR. Prof Dr Ernst Tamm has been a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2017. Prof. Dr Ernst Tamm has been vice-president for research and support for emerging academics at the University of Regensburg since 1 October 2020.

• Curriculum vitae of Prof Tamm