Professor for Plant Pathology
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Prof. Dr. Matthias Hahn
"Fungi are incredibly diverse organisms with astonishing, useful, and harmful abilities, and the research of them is extremely fascinating and exciting."
Matthias Hahn obtained his diploma in Biology at the University of Munich, and his PhD in Microbiology at the ETH Zurich, in 1987. He worked as a Postdoc at ETH Zurich, Stanford University, MPI for Plant Breeding Research Cologne, and University of Constance. Since 2000, he is Professor for Plant Pathology at the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau. His research interests are the mechanisms of infection and fungicide resistance of plant pathogenic fungi, in particular the grey mould fungus Botrytis.