Andrea Maier

After graduation in Medicine at the Medical University Lübeck (Germany) in 2003, she registered as specialist Internal Medicine & Geriatrics at the Leiden University Medical Center (the Netherlands) in 2009. Contemporaneously she worked on translational research on ageing, defending her thesis on gerontopsychiatric-medical units in 2003 and on cellular senescence in 2008. Her research is driven by her passion to unravel ageing mechanisms and the interaction of ageing and age-related diseases. In 2013 she was appointed as full Professor of Gerontology at the VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Since February 2016 she is Divisional Director of Medicine and Community Care at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Professor of Medicine and Aged Care at the University of Melbourne, Australia. During the last 7 years she conducted several national and European observational studies as well as clinical trials and published more than 170 peer reviewed articles in international journals. Her innovative, multidisciplinary research group works in the Netherlands and in Australia. She is invited member of several international research and health policy committees to eventually increase the visibility, quality and quantity of ageing research.