Hans-Joachim Merker

Merker graduated as a physician at the Free University of Berlin in 1956. In 1957, he was employed at the Research Department of Electron Microscopy, which was headed by Willy Schwarz, at the Institute of Anatomy at the Free University of Berlin. He obtained his doctorate (Dr.med.) in 1958 and his Habilitation in 1964, and was appointed as Adjunct Professor (außerplanmäßiger Professor) at the Free University of Berlin in 1968. In 1969, he became director of the Research Department of Electron Microscopy. He held the first chair in anatomy from 1972 to 1998, in succession to Ernst von Herrath.^[5] He also served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1980 to 1981, and was director of the Institute of Anatomy until 1998. He was a visiting scholar for one year at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel in 1965, and was subsequently a visiting scholar at universities in England and Sweden. He wrote more than 250 scientific papers. He became Professor Emeritus in 1998, and died in Berlin in 2014.^[6][7]

• Risk assessment of prenatally – induced adverse health effects. (with Neubert, Kavlock, and Klein, eds.), Springer – Verlag, Berlin et al., 1992.
• Anatomie für Anästhesisten, Blackwell – Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1990, ISBN 978-3894121013
• Elektronenmikroskopischer Atlas, Blackwell – Wissenschaft, Berlin, 1989, ISBN 978-3894120542
• Anatomie für medizinische Hilfsberufe, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1989.
• Teratology of the limbs (co-editor), Walter de Gruyter – Verlag, Berlin, 1981.
• Culture techniques (with Neubert, eds.), Walter de Gruyter– Verlag, Berlin, 1981.
• Methods in prenatal toxicology (with Neubert and Kwasigroch, eds.), G. Thieme, Stuttgart, 1977.