Dr. Marie-Theres Huemer

Marie-Theres Huemer holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in sports science and received the Doctor of Human Biology (PhD) from the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich in 2023. Her doctoral thesis covered the assessment of sarcopenia and identified new protein biomarkers of muscle and fat mass using machine learning approaches. Since then, she has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Epidemiology of Helmholtz Munich investigating proteomic signatures of aging-related diseases. In 2024, she joined the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University in Boston for a 6-months research stay with a continued academic appointment until today. Her collaborative work with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health focuses on the link between aging-related physical and cognitive decline, and dementia.

Marie-Theres Huemer has been involved in the German National Cohort (NAKO) since 2018, starting as a student assistant during her master studies at the Technical University of Munich; and operates since 2022 in the science administration for the German National Cohort at Helmholtz Munich. Since 2025, she is the Speaker of the Expert Group Anthropometry of the German National Cohort.