Stefan Teipel is a full professor and specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy and head of the Section for Clinical Dementia Research at the University Medical Center Rostock (since 2013). He is also deputy speaker of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Rostock/Greifswald (since 2009).

His research focuses on the development of diagnostic and treatment approaches for neurodegenerative dementias from experimental to health care settings, as well as the development and implementation of digital assistive devices for people with dementia.  The active involvement of people with dementia and their caregivers in research using participatory research methods has become an increasing focus in recent years. Stefan Teipel has received national and European research funding, and is advisory board member in national and international projects, including the Independent Data Monitoring Committee for ENVISION 221AD305 Study (Biogen), Member of the Department Individual and Societal Aging of the Interdisciplinary Faculty, University of Rostock, Co-Head of the Neuroimaging Section of the German Society of Biological Psychiatry, and Advisory Board Member of the Alzheimer Forschung Initiative (AFI) e. V., and Senior Associate Editor of Alzheimer’s & Dementia DADM.