Professor Katrin Hartmann graduated from the College of Veterinary Medicine at the LMU Munich, Germany, in 1987. She completed her doctoral thesis in 1990 and her habilitation thesis (PhD) on antiviral treatment of FIV in 1995 at the Clinic of Small Animal Medicine at the LMU Munich. Since 1999, she is Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine – Companion Animals (ECVIM-CA). She stayed as Clinical Instructor and Assistant Professor at the Clinic of Small Animal Medicine at the LMU Munich until 2001. From 2001 to 2003, she worked as Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the Department of Small Animal Medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, USA. Since 2003, she is Head of the Clinic of Small Animal Medicine at the LMU Munich, Germany, with the rank of Full Professor. From 2009 to 2016, she additionally was Director, and since 2016 she is Vice Director of the Centre for Clinical Veterinary Medicine at the LMU Munich which was founded in 2009.
Professor Hartmann is author of many papers, proceedings, abstracts, and book chapters. She has lectured at numerous international meetings and congresses. Her research interest is infectious diseases in cats and dogs, with a special focus on virus infections in cats.