Prof. Dr. Sebastian G. Wicha, PhD

Sebastian Wicha is a tenured Full Professor of Clinical Pharmacy. He is leading the research group Clinical Pharmacy at the Institute of Pharmacy, University of Hamburg, Germany since 2017. He is a pharmacist by training holding a Ph.D. in Clinical Pharmacy from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (2015) and gained experience as a postdoctoral researcher at the Pharmacometrics Research Group at Uppsala University, Sweden (2015-2017). His research group aims to improve and individualize drug therapy by means of pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic and pharmacometric techniques with a special focus on anti-infectives. In this field, he has published >110 peer-reviewed papers. His research group has expertise in bioanalysis, pharmacometric data analysis, and develops open-access web-based software to foster model-informed precision dosing (TDMx.eu). Sebastian is the currently the chairperson of the PK/PD study group of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) as well as an ESCMID Fellow. Moreover, he is an external expert for pharmacometrics for the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).