Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine and Director of the Department of Nephrology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.

Hermann Haller is Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine and Director of the Department of Nephrology, at Hannover Medical School, Germany. He studied medicine at the Free University, Berlin, and then held several research positions, including Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Yale University Medical School, Division of Endocrinology, USA.

Prof. Haller’s key areas of interest include mechanisms of chronic transplant nephropathy and biomechanical phenotype regulation in the heart and circulatory system. Prof. Haller is a member of numerous hypertension and cardiology societies, including the European Council for Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Research, the International Society of Hypertension, and the Council of the European Society of Hypertension.

Professor Haller has received several awards, including the Franz Volhard Prize from the German Hypertension Society in 2000, and the Björn Folkow Award from the European Society of Hypertension in 2005.

He is on the editorial boards of several international journals, including the European Journal of Clinical Investigation and the Journal of Hypertension.