Christos C. Zouboulis - Biography#

Prof. Dr. med. Prof. honoraire Dr. h.c. Christos C. Zouboulis is full Professor of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology at the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane and the Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg and Head of the Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Immunology, Universitaetsklinikum Ruppin-Brandenburg, Neuruppin, Germany.

Prof. Zouboulis has studied medicine and political sciences at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He performed pre-doctoral work on cell biology at the Department of Dermatology, Benjamin Franklin Medical Center, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany where he was awarded his thesis title (Dr. med.) in 1988. He completed residencies in Dermatology and Venereology as well as in Allergology at the same department. Subsequently, he joined the Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA for a research fellowship on molecular biology, and the Departments of Dermatology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA for clinical research before returning as faculty member in Berlin. He accomplished his habilitation thesis (Priv.-Doz.) in 1995. In 2000, he was named Professor of Dermatology and Venereology of the Freie Universitaet Berlin and he served as Vice Chair of the Department of Dermatology from 2000 to 2005. In 2005 he was elected Director of the Departments of Dermatology, Venereology, Allergology and Immunology at the Staedtisches Klinikum Dessau, Dessau, Germany, where he served until 2025, in 2017 Founding Professor of Dermatology and Venereology at the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Germany and in 2019 co-opted Professor of Dermatology, at the Faculty of Health Sciences Brandeburg.

Prof. Zouboulis is elected Prof. honoraire of the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, Dr. h.c. of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Full Visiting Professor and Senior Scientist at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania. He has received the silver medal of the Wroclaw University, Poland, the Medal of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel and is honorary member of the French, the Hungarian, the Italian, the Lithuanian, the Maltese, the Portuguese and the Kaunas Region Dermatological Societies. He has been over 10 years Visiting Professor of the Jiao Tong University of Shanghai, China.

Prof. Zouboulis has received numerous awards for his scientific work, including the EADV Research Fellowship, the Oskar Gans Major Prize (German Dermatological Society), the Nékám Award (Hungarian Dermatological Society), the Felix Wankel Animal Protection Research Prize, the Gerson Unna Prize on Immunology, the Skin Cancer Prize, the “Beauty Care Prize” for Dermatological Research, the "Germany land of ideas - 2009 place of excellence" for Skin Stem Cell Research, the “Geroulanos Prize” for History of Medicine, the Paul “Liérac Research Award” for Skin Aging Research and the Springer Prize for Dermatology. Since 2021, he is included annually to the Top 2% Scientists at the Stanford University ranking.