Dr Julian Hoevelman

PhD candidate

CHI research group: Cardiac Disease in Maternity
CHI membership: Associate member

Julian Hoevelmann studied Medicine at Hannover Medical School (MHH), the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of Münster. He completed his doctoral thesis (Dr. med.) at the Department of Cardiology and Angiology at MHH. Since 2020 he works as a registrar in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the Saarland University Hospital in Homburg (Saar), Germany.

As a scholar of the Biomedical Education Program (BMEP) funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), he joined the Cardiac Disease in Maternity research group at the Cape Heart Institute (CHI) for a research fellowship in 2017. A postdoctoral research scholarship by the German Research Foundation (DFG) enabled him to return to Cape Town in 2020 and to pursue his research interests in heart failure, cardiomyopathies, cardiac disease in maternity, arrhythmias and electrocardiography. Julian Hoevelmann is currently a first-year PhD student in the Cardiac Disease in Maternity research group under the supervision of Prof. Karen Sliwa and Dr Charle Viljoen.

Research engagements:

  • Heart failure
  • Cardiac Disease in Maternity
  • Arrhythmia
  • Cardiovascular imaging