2. g.artmann@gmx.net
Prof. Artmann received his degree in Physics from the University of Dresden in 1974, his PhD in 1988
from the RWTH Aachen, West Germany, and his habilitation in 1998. He is conducting an
international research team in bioengineering at a German University of Applied Sciences with ~ 30-
45 employees, PhD and MSc students. His team represents key disciplines in Bioengineering like
Biophysics, Chemistry, Microbiology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Biomechanics and -
modelling as well as Medicine and hard-and-software-development, guaranteeing high-end
interdisciplinary R/D. He chairs the IFMBE working group Cell- and Stem Cell Engineering organizing
international conferences every other year with the latest held in 2014 in Aachen, Germany.
Artmann founded the Centre of Competence in Bioengineering in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany,
in 2003 and chairs it until today. He worked at the University of California, San Diego, USA, with Prof.
Y.C. Fung (National Medal of Science Awardee 2001 presented by President Clinton) and Shu Chien in
total ~3 years (1994-2002). In 1993, he was guest professor at the Fudan University and in 1998
Advisory Professor at the Chongqing University, China. 2002 – 2004. He was Dean of his Faculty for
Applied Physics. He became Adjunct Professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, in 2004 and
Adjunct Professor at the University College London in 2007. His scientific work was published in
highly ranked scientific journals. Together with the National Medal of Science Awardee Shu Chien
(presented by President Obama in 2012) he published the book “Bioengineering in Cell and Tissue
Research”, Springer 2008, 680 pages. His book “Stem Cell Engineering”, was published in 2011 by
Springer, with Jürgen Hescheler, University of Cologne, and Stephen Minger, Kings College, London.
As author of German literature he has been publishing numerous poems and short stories since
1980, the novel “Zwischenland” in 1991, the feature “Exodus”, broadcasted by Hessischer Rundfunk,
1988. In 2010 he published the 110-pages poem “Abschliessende Worte eines Deutschen an seinen
Herrn (Concluding words of a German to his Master)”, edition Fischer, and lately the novel “Hàllo
Ànn” (Web: gerhard artmann hallo ann/Research Gate).
New York April 03, 2014
