Private Docent in Neuropathology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Top 2% scientists (Stanford list), H-index 80 Google Scholar
Contact: manuel.graeber@professoriate.org
Current and previous posts
- 2023- Vice-President, Australian Association of University Professors (AAUP)
- 2021 Co-founder Public Universities Australia (PUA)
- 2020-2023 Foundation President, then President, Australian Association of University Professors (AAUP)
- 2017- President, University of Sydney Association of Professors (USAP)
- 2010-2023 Barnet-Cropper Chair of Brain Tumour Research, University of Sydney (my contract was terminated after I made a public interest disclosure; the case is currently before the Federal Court of Australia, NSD57/2024 and NSD246/2025)
- 12/2008-1/2010 Consultant Neuropathologist and Head of Division of Neuropathology, King Fahd Medical City, Riyadh, KSA
- 05/2008 Win of a whistle-blowing case against the management of Imperial College London (Ruling by the London Employment Tribunals, case of Professor M Graeber v. Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Case Number 2202785/2007, 7 May 2008. Funding provided by the British Medical Association is gratefully acknowledged.)
- 2007 Co-chair of the Launch of the European Fellowship in Neuropathology (Euro-CNS)
- 2000-2007 Professor of Neuropathology and Foundation Chair, University Department of Neuropathology, Imperial College London and Hammersmith Hospitals Trust; responsible Diagnostic Neuropathologist of the UK Multiple Sclerosis Society and UK Parkinson’s Disease Society Brain Banks
- In 1998 Visiting Clinician, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
- 1997-2023 Co-Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief, Neurogenetics; in addition, member of a number of editorial boards including Journal of Neuroscience Research, Developmental Neuroscience, Brain Pathology, Journal of Neurocytology, Journal of Neural Transmission, Acta Neuropathologica, PLoS Medicine, Neuropathology, International Journal of Biological Markers, Cancers, International Journal of Molecular Sciences and others
- 1996-1999 Senior Staff Scientist and Head, Molecular Neuropathology Laboratory, Department of Neuromorphology, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, and Docent in Neuropathology, University of Munich, Gemany
- In 1996 Visiting Scientist, National Institute of Neuroscience, Tokyo, Japan
- 1992 and 1997 Discovery of the histological slides of Alois Alzheimer’s original cases
- 1992-1996 Head, Molecular Neuropathology Laboratory, Institute of Neuropathology, University of Munich, Germany
- 1990-1992 Research Fellow in Genetics, Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- 1989-1990 Research Fellow in Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- 1987-1989 Staff Scientist, Max Planck lnstitute of Psychiatry, Martinsried, Germany
- In 1986 Visiting Scientist, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Degrees, qualifications, and awards
- 2009 Board Certification in Neuropathology, KSA
- 2005 Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath), UK
- 2004 Elected to the Athenaeum, London, UK
- 2001 Offer of appointment (as non-applicant): Directorship of the Institute of Neuropathology and Chair of Neuropathology at the University of Hamburg, Germany
- 1999 Board Certification in Neuropathology, UK
- 1996 Privat-Dozent in Neuropathologie (University of Munich, Germany)
- 1996 Board Certification in Neuropathology, Germany
- 1995 Dr. med. habil. (~DSc) Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany
- 1995 Center of Excellence Visiting Scientist Award, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan
- 1993 Gerhard Hess Award of the German Research Foundation
- 1993 Invitation to apply for the position of Neuropathologist-in-Chief at the Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- 1989 Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society, Germany
- 1988 Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) exam, USA
- 1988 Dr. med. (summa cum laude), Technical University of Munich, Germany
- 1987 MD exam, Technical University of Munich; medical studies at the Universities of Saarbrücken, Heidelberg/Mannheim, and Technical University of Munich, Germany, and electives in Glasgow, UK