André Hajek world's leading expert on "loneliness"HCHE core member leads the global ranking of experts on "loneliness" on the expertscape web portal

26 March 2024, by Hannes Rathjen

Professor André Hajek from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf/HCHE leads the global ranking of experts on "loneliness" on the web portal expertscape. The Hamburg-based scientist has been researching the topic of "loneliness" for several years and is in first place in the international ranking of the US web portal thanks to a large number of high-ranking specialist publications.

Prof. Dr. phil. André Hajek is Professor of Interdisciplinary Health Care Epidemiology at the Institute for Health Economics and Health Care Research at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. He has been a member of the Hamburg Center for Health Economics since 2014. One focus of his research work is on successful and healthy ageing. Hajek has published around 130 articles on loneliness in the recent years, examining topics such as coronavirus, social media, migration, pets, obesity and climate anxiety in connection with loneliness and social isolation. In 2023, together with Prof. Dr. Steffi G. Riedel-Heller and Prof. Dr. Hans-Helmut König, he published "Loneliness and Social Isolation in Old Age", a comprehensive edited work released by the renowned Routledge publishing house, which provides a comprehensive overview of the most important correlates of loneliness and isolation. The publication can be read online.

The US web portal expertscape regularly compiles rankings that list the world's leading experts in specific medical fields. They are determined on the basis of qualitative and quantitative scientific publications. To the expertscape ranking