Olga Ramich, also known as Olga Pivovarova-Ramich, is a prominent German researcher specializing in molecular nutritional medicine, metabolism, and chronobiology.[1][3][6] Born with a passion for the intersection of medicine and biology, she studied biology at universities in Tambov and Pushchino, Russia, from 1997 to 2004, while also training as a nurse.[1]
In 2006, Ramich joined the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DIfE) as a doctoral student in the Clinical Nutrition department, completing her PhD at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin in 2010. Her thesis examined the insulin-degrading enzyme's role in diabetes development.[1] During her postdoctoral work, she investigated molecular mechanisms of nutritional metabolic regulation and pioneered research on the circadian clock's influence on metabolic homeostasis, nutritional responses, and metabolic diseases. She demonstrated early that calorie intake, food composition, and meal timing alter human circadian rhythms.[1]
In 2018, Ramich habilitated in Experimental Nutritional Science at Charité and became head of the Molecular Nutritional Medicine research group at DIfE.[1] Her work has yielded over 65 publications in top journals, with 3,394 citations on Google Scholar, focusing on human nutrition, metabolic diseases, and chronobiology.[1][6]
Ramich has earned prestigious awards, including the 2020 Morgagni Prize from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and the 2021 Adam Heller Prize from the German Diabetes Association (DDG), recognizing her chrononutrition contributions.[1] Recently, she received a Heisenberg Professorship, a joint appointment with Charité and DIfE, to lead the Molecular Metabolism and Precision Nutrition department for five years while teaching.[1][2][4] She remains active in public outreach, such as discussing metabolism-sleep links on SWR's Doc Fischer program.[5] (298 words)