Klotz, Luisa
Prof. Dr. Luisa Klotz is Managing Senior Physician and Head of the Neurology Study Center at the Department of Neurology at Münster University Hospital. She was elected to the Advisory Board as a new member in 2025 and will act in a supportive and advisory capacity in this role.
Professional stations
since 2021: W3 Professorship for Neurological Immunotherapy and Senior Physician at the Department of Neurology
since 2020: Head of the Neurology Study Center at the Department of Neurology, Münster University Hospital
2019: Offer of a permanent W3 professorship “Neuroimmunology”, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen Nuremberg (FAU), offer declined
2016-2021: W3 Endowed Professorship for Neurological Immunotherapy at the Department of Neurology
since 2016: Senior physician at the Department of Neurology, Münster University Hospital
since 2013: Senior physician and head of the Neuroimmunology Study Center at the Department of Neurology, Münster University Hospital
201 – 2013: Specialist and research group leader at the Department of Neurology – Inflammatory Diseases of the Nervous System and Neurooncology, Münster University Hospital
2009: Assistant doctor at the Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Bonn
2001-2009: Assistant doctor at the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bonn
Education
11.2010: Venia legendi for the field of neurology
2006 – 2010: Junior Group Leader, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Experimental Immunology, University Hospital Bonn
2004 – 2006: Scientific work at the Institute for Molecular Medicine and Experimental Immunology, University Hospital Bonn
2001 – 2003: PostDoc at the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bonn
2001: Doctorate at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, (summa cum laude)
1994 – 2001: Study of human medicine, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn
Main research areas
- Pathophysiology of immune-mediated diseases of the central nervous system
- New therapeutic targets for CNS autoimmunity
- Diagnostic and predictive immunosignatures
- Pathomechanisms of MS progression
- Immune changes during a stroke or sepsis
Membership
- Deputy Chairwoman Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (IZKF) Münster (since 2025)
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Sobek Foundation (since 2025)
- Institutional Delegate Member of the European Academy of Neurology (since 2024)
- Member of the DGN Board of Trustees for the Science Prize 2023, 2024 (2022)
- Member of the application team of the DFG-funded Clinician Scientist Program “CareerS” (2022)
- Deputy Chairwoman of the Board of the Medical Advisory Board of the DMSG-Bundesverband e.V. (2021-2025)
- Member of the Scientific Panel “Multiple Sclerosis” of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) (since 2021)
- Member of the research council of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in MS (ECTRIMS) (2021 – 2025)
- Member of the DGN Commission “Clinical Studies” (since 2019)
- Member of the DGN Commission “Neuroimmunology” (since 2019)
Awards
Wissenschaftspreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurologie (vormals Heinrich-Pette Preis) (2019)
Sobek Nachwuchspreis für Multiple Sklerose (2012)
1st Oppenheim Prize for Multiple Sclerosis (together with Dr. rer. nat. Stephanie Hucke) (2012)
Winner of the BONFOR Symposium (2005)
Year of birth
1975