Prof. Dr. Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann

For Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann, practicing dermatologist, ski-ing instructor, singer, musician, author, wife, mother of two, and a passionate environmental health scientist, the word “multifaceted” is almost an understatement. Driven by a strong sense of empathy she hopes to literally “heal the world” by preventing diseases altogether. 

Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann (born 1970) studied medicine at RWTH Aachen. In 2013 she was appointed to the Chair of Environmental Medicine at TU Munich/UNIKA-T which was transferred to the University of Augsburg in 2021. In 2015 she became Director of the Institute of Environmental Health at Helmholtz Munich. Since 2020 she is speaker of the Board of CK CARE – Christiane Kühne Center for Allergy Research and Education, Europe’s largest privately funded research initiative aiming to improve the diagnosis and treatment of allergies.

As scientist she researches diseases caused and aggravated by environmental factors, especially allergies.  How do humans interact with their environment and how does this interaction then determine the state of health or illness in a person? Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann and her team were able to revolutionize the idea of how allergies arise and found new drivers for allergic immune responses in pollen. As a dermatologist she supports partners, not patients, on their way to a healthier future. With her international and interdisciplinary team, she works within national and multi-national networks and is widely consulted as an expert by media and politics.
In addition, Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann wants to spread awareness of the effects of climate change and what that would mean for the health of humanity at large. Her aim is to determine the influence of climate change on health, to develop possibilities to prevent diseases and strengthen resilience. She addresses the issue in her book, Überhitzt, and goes on to explain how climate change must be tackled at the earliest before it is too late. Within the network of KLUG e.V. she works for the vision of healthy people in a healthy environment. As a speaker she brings knowledge about climate change and health issues to listeners as diverse as elementary kids, Members of the Deutscher Bundestag and the WHO.

Allergy Atopic EczemaAllergy PreventionThunderstorm AsthmaFunctional MicrobiomicsAccessible Biomarkers  Climate Change and HealthBig Data Analysis  Personalized Prevention