Mat•thi•as Wjst /wiːst/

born 1958 (315 ppm) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Draisschule and Helmholtz Gymnasium Karlsruhe.
Photo lab assistant 1973 and nurse St Klinikum Karlsruhe 1980.
Studied theology and medicine in Marburg and Göttingen.
Dr med 1986, Dr habil 2000 and professor 2012 TU München.
former physician (Haunersche Kinderklinik)
then scientist (Helmholtz München).
Now: freelance consultant and photographer (Imago Images).
Loves: cycling, travelling, reading.
Legacy: papers. orcid. highlights.
Bytes: dating. cycleplanner. pdftest. contactprint. streaming.
Online: images. blog. bluesky.
Featured by: Science. Deutschlandradio. SZ. SPIEGEL. 3SAT.
Legal: impressum. Do not follow this link
Email: m(AT)wjst(DOT)de

scientific highlights
* comprehensive characterization of thyroid antibodies
* first study of traffic pollution and childhood respiratory disease
* asthma genome scan discovers IL33 cytokine and receptor region
* kickstarted molecular epidemiology in Germany
* programmed one of the first medical websites in the internet
* discovered vitamin D induction of allergy
* developed informed consent for genetic studies
* first largescale study of the asthma exome
* co-developed image analysis for research integrity