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.