Trainer’s name: PD Dr. Christine E. Hellweg
Trainer’s position: Vice Director, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) - German Aerospace Center Cologne, Germany
Trainer’s email and phone number: christine.hellweg(at)dlr.de; +49 2203 6013243

PD Dr. Christine E. Hellweg (2001 Dr. med. vet., 2012 Habilitation) is Vice Director of the DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine. Until 2024, she was head of the Radiation Biology department of the same Institute. Major research interests: biological effects of space radiation (experiments at heavy ion accelerators GANIL, GSI and HIMAC) and other environmental stressors at the cellular and molecular level. She teaches at the Free University of Berlin (Immunology) and at the University of Bonn (Radiation Protection Courses, Radiopharmacy). She published 68 manuscripts in peer reviewed journals and is a referee for more than 30 journals, the European Science Foundation, the European Commission and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France. She is member of the German Radiation Protection Commission since 2023.