A career in academia was by no means guaranteed for the young Jan Kottner. After his military service and training as a nurse, followed by a stint at the Center for Quality in Care (ZQP), he says it still took a series of developments and coincidences for him to end up where he is today: at the forefront of nursing science at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Professor Kottner has received funding from Stiftung Charité multiple times over the years, always for ambitious projects. In 2013, he was awarded the Max Rubner Award for ‘Evidence-Based Skincare at Charité,’ and in 2022 he won the Max Rubner Award together with PD Dr. Antje Tannen for the project ‘Nursing Based on Science – Science based on Nursing. A platform for scientific exchange in nursing.’ He also secured project funding and, most recently, received funding as part of the science x media Tandem Program in 2024 to collaborate with photojournalist Patricia Kühfuss on the project ‘Nursing Goes Visual – Interdisciplinary photo project for a constructive representation of nursing science and the nursing profession.’
