Prof. Dr. med. Katharina Timper

Prof. Dr. Katharina Timper is a physician-scientist specializing in endocrinology, diabetology and metabolism, with a particular focus on the neuroscience of eating behavior and obesity. She studied human medicine at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and subsequently completed specialist training in internal medicine and endocrinology in Switzerland, earning her board certification in Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism in 2016 and a Swiss diploma in nutritional medicine in 2023.

Prior to joining Helmholtz Munich, Prof. Timper held a leading position at the University Hospital Basel, where she directed the interdisciplinary obesity center, the clinical nutrition unit, and the outpatient clinic for eating disorders. As the holder of an Eccellenza Professorship of the Swiss National Science Foundation, she led her own independent research group at the University of Basel, investigating the neurobiological mechanisms underlying obesity and metabolic regulation.

Since May 2025, Prof. Timper serves as Chair of Clinical Nutritional Medicine and Medical Director at the TUM University Hospital, completing the scientific leadership team of the Else Kröner Fresenius Centre for Nutritional Medicine (EKFZ). Together with co-director Dr. Tim Gruber, she is currently building up the Institute for Translational Metabolism Research (ITMR) at the Helmholtz Diabetes Center, where her group investigates how the brain contributes to metabolic regulation in the context of obesity and eating disorders.