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Timo Ulrichs was born in Fulda in 1971 and studied medicine in Marburg and Berlin, with practical work taking him abroad, including to France, the USA and South Africa. During his stay in South Africa, his interest in tuberculosis arose. In Berlin, Timo Ulrichs worked on immunological questions of tuberculosis at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology. He continued this work as a postdoc in Boston and New York. Back in Berlin, Timo Ulrichs worked simultaneously at the MPI and at the Charité, where he completed his specialist training as a microbiologist and infectious disease epidemiologist. From 2006 to 2021, Mr. Ulrichs worked as a consultant at the Federal Ministry of Health, where he was responsible for disease control and influenza pandemic planning, among other things. At the same time, he completed his doctorate in Public Health at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Bielefeld University. Timo Ulrichs has headed the International Emergency and Disaster Relief program since 2012. In 2018, he founded the Institute for Research in International Assistance (IRIA) at Acre University, into which he contributed his various research projects and has been developing it ever since.

Since 2001, Timo Ulrichs has been active in scientific cooperation projects in Eastern Europe, particularly in Ukraine, Georgia and the Republic of Moldova. In 2006, these projects formed the basis for the founding of the Koch-Metschnikow Forum (KMF), a non-governmental organization that promotes scientific partnership with Eastern Europe and is now also a partner of Acre University.

In 2018, he founded the Institute for International Aid Research at the university. There, his research interests are in health system development and the medical aspects of humanitarian aid, as well as aspects of global health security. In addition, at the Koch-Mechnikov Forum, he heads the section on tuberculosis and actively participates in various German-Russian/Eastern European joint projects. At the Institute for Global Health Berlin, he facilitates think-tank projects and links between science and policy.