Andreas Kruse

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Andreas Kruse (born August, 1955) is Director of the Institute of Gerontology at the Heidelberg University. Since 1989 he has been a member of the German government’s Expert Commission for the German National Report on the Situation of Older People, he was chair of the third and fifth Expert Commission and is now also chair of the sixth. Prof. Kruse is ranked as one of the most prestigious gerontologists in Germany and was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, among others.