Stefan Schwarz studied veterinary medicine at the
Justus-Liebig University (JLU) in Gießen, Germany where he received his
doctoral degree in 1987. He conducted his postdoctoral studies at JLU Giessen,
St. Thomas’s Hospital in London, UK and the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
From 1992 to 2008, he worked in various institutes of the Federal Agricultural
Research Centre (FAL) in Celle and Neustadt-Mariensee, Germany. In December
1995, he completed his habilitation at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover,
Germany and was appointed Adjunct Professor for Microbiology in October 1998 at
the same university. From 2008 to 2016, he was the head of the research unit
"Molecular Microbiology & Antimicrobial Resistance" in the
Institute of Farm Animal Genetics of the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) in
Neustadt-Mariensee, Germany. In October 2016, he accepted the offer of the
Freie Universität Berlin to become the head of the Institute of Microbiology
and Epizootics in the School of Veterinary Medicine. His main research interest
is in antimicrobial resistance in bacteria of veterinary, zoonotic, and food
hygiene relevance. He has received several national/international research
awards and was appointed as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
in 2020. Since 2014 and 2024, he is also a visiting professor at the China
Agricultural University in Beijing, China and at the Henan Agricultural
University in Zhengzhou, China, respectively.
