JENS JORDAN is director of the DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine. Before he moved to Cologne in 2016, he was director of the Institute for Clinical pharmacology at Hannover Medical School (MHH) in Germany.

He graduated from Medical School at Free University Berlin and received his training in clinical pharmacology and in internal medicine at Franz-Volhard Clinic in Berlin and at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

Jens Jordan is an expert in cardiovascular diseases, particularly rare autonomic nervous system disorders and neurogenic arterial hypertension.

He and his group are pursuing mechanisms controlling cardiovascular regulation and molecular mechanisms responsible for premature cardiovascular and metabolic disease in human beings.

The overall goal of the research is to find ways of extending the healthy lifespan on earth and in space.

He was elected as member of the Euorpean Academy of Engineering in 2021.