Pia Eichmüller was a doctoral student at the asthma and allergy research group at the Children´s Hospital of the University in Munich from October 2012 until December 2013. The main project of her PhD was the characterization of various phenotypes of asthma in children in the context of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL).

Publications:
Eichmueller, P., Thorén, S. and Radespiel, U. (2013), The lack of female dominance in golden-brown mouse lemurs suggests alternative routes in lemur social evolution. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol., 150: 158–164.

After medical training in Heidelberg, Munich, Lund, and Boston and his graduation from Medical School in Munich in 2004, Oliver Fuchs obtained his doctoral degree (MD) in 2005 and was trained in General Paediatrics and Neonatal Intensive Care at the Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. From 2008 to 2012, he was a research fellow and PhD candidate under supervision of Urs Frey in the Division of Paediatric Pulmonology at the University Children’s Hospital Bern, Switzerland, and since 2011 also at the University Children’s Hospital Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his PhD at the Graduate School for Biomedical and Cellular Science in Bern, Switzerland in 2012. During his stay in Switzerland, his main research focused on genetic and environmental determinants (both protective and risk factors) on the development of lung disease during childhood, asthma epidemiology and infant and child respiratory physiology. After returning to the Dr von Hauner Children’s Hospital in Munich in 2012 he joined the Asthma and Allergy Research Group and worked as a clinician researcher in the frame of the German Center for Lung Research until April 2017. His focus was on establishing a clinical cohort of children with wheeze and asthma in order to improve diagnostics, prevention and therapy of childhood asthma, in order to better define phenotypes of childhood asthma and to improve our understanding of the different molecular and cellular mechanisms involved.

After three years of professional experience as a nurse at an internistic intensive care unit, Johanna Kurz joined the Asthma and Allergy Research Group in July 2014 as a study nurse to deepen her skills in the field of health sciences, which she gained during her bachelor's studies. She expanded her knowledge with a master's degree, the main project of her master's thesis being: Quality control of lung function measurements to distinguish between different phenotypes of the bronchial asthma in childhood and its precursors. Intermediate analysis of a multicentric cohort study (KIRA-Study, KInder Register Asthma, DZL) and concept development for process and result optimization.

Antje Legatzki studied biology with the focus on microbiology at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle. In her diploma and Ph.D. thesis she focused on the investigation of mechanisms for heavy metall resistance in bacteria. From 2007 to 2012 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Soil, Water and Environmental Science department at the University of Arizona, USA. Her area of interest was the characterization of bacterial communities with the main focus on bacterial communities on carbonate formations of Kartchner Caverns (KC). She joined the Asthma and Allergy Group of Professor Erika von Mutius in April 2012. Until her early death in March 2017 her interests were the host-environment interactions in the protection from asthma and allergies – with special focus on the microbiome of the environment.  

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Georg Loss joined the asthma and allergy research group at the Children's Hospital of the University of Munich in November 2012 with a continuing affiliation with the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel. His focus were infections occuring during the first year of life and associations with early life environmental exposures. Further reasearch projects included the investigation of farming environments and specific farming exposures and their possible impact on the development of asthma, atopic sensitization and atopic dermatitis in childhood.
He left the working group in 2016.

Juliane Weber is a medical doctor. She graduated from medical school in 1991 and obtained her Doctor Degree in medicine in 1992 at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg. She is specialized in obstetrics and gynaecology. Between 1992 and 2003 she worked in different medical fields in clinics and private practices, in Germany, Switzerland, UK, Malaysia and Kenya. From 2003 to 2007 she did research on osteoporosis and osteoarthritis at the Institute for Sports Sciences of the Technische Universität Munich, i.e clinical drug trials in postmenopausal women and exercise studies on bone density. In February 2008 she achieved her Master Degree in Public Health (MPH) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.
From January 2008 to December 2014, she worked as an epidemiologist in the Asthma and Allergy Research Group and coordinated several national and international studies.