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Last updated 27th March 2023

Hans Hennies studied biochemistry at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and moved to the field of human genetics for his PhD studies. He obtained a PhD for a project exploring the genetic basis of a group of monogenic skin diseases, which is a major research interest until today. He continued working on disorders of keratinisation with Prof. A. Reis (then Institute of Human Genetics, Charité Berlin) and Prof. I. Leigh (then Imperial Cancer Reasearch Fund, London) before moving to the Gene Mapping Center (director Prof. A. Reis) at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin.

In 2005 he was appointed Junior Research Group leader at the University of Cologne and became head of the Division of Dermatogenetics at the Cologne Center for Genomics (director Prof. P. Nürnberg). Hans was principal investigator at the Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne and the Cologne Cluster of Excellence on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases and he completed the habilitation and was awarded the venia legendi in 2012. He established several collaborative research initiatives and was a board member of the Network for Ichthyoses and Related Keratinisation Disorders (NIRK), funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research, and coordinator of the Network on Rare Congenital Skin Diseases (SkinDev), funded by European Research Agencies. From 2013 he led the Centre for Dermatogenetics at the Institute of Human Genetics of the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria, which brought together teaching, research and diagnostics of genetic skin diseases. He joined the University of Huddersfield in 2015 as a Reader in Biological Sciences and he is affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Cologne as a principal investigator and guest lecturer in Human Genetics.