Monika Stoll

Monika Stoll graduated from University of Giessen, Germany, where she received her Diploma
in Biology in 1991, before finishing a PhD in Pharmacology in 1995 at University of Heidelberg.
She then assumed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin, USA, where
she discovered her interest in complex genetics and genomics.
In 2003, she became Professor and Director of the Division Genetic Epidemiology at the
Leibniz-Institute for Arteriosclerosis Research, and starting 2014, at the Institute of Human
Genetics of the University of Münster, Germany.
2015, she was appointed as Extraordinary Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical
Genetics at Maastricht University.
In October 2016, she was appointed as Vice-Rector for Research of the University of Muenster.
Prof. Stoll is engaged in research in complex genetics and genetic epidemiology particularly
relating to cardiovascular diseases and inflammation. Current research projects address the
genetic and genomic basis of arrhythmogenic diseases and heart failure.