MARIT METTERNICH, PHD

Policy officer, Division of Global Health Research, Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Dr Marit (Ackermann) Metternich joined the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in March 2015. She is responsible for pharmaceutical research and AMR in the Division for Global Health Research.  From 2013 to 2015 she was working as a National Contact Point for Life Sciences for the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation “Horizon 2020” at the DLR Project Management Agency. In 2013, Metternich completed a traineeship at the European Commission, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, where she worked on research policy for neglected and poverty-related infectious diseases.  After having earned her diploma in statistics with a focus on biometrics, she completed a doctorate in statistics at Biotechnology Center Dresden and Technical University Dortmund.