Katja Husen

Katja Husen (12 June 1976 – 28 June 2022) was a German biologist and politician. A member of Alliance 90/The Greens, she was speaker of the party's youth organisation, Green Youth, and served in the Hamburg Parliament from 2004 to 2008. She was CEO of the Centre for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg.

Early life and education Husen was born in Istanbul, Turkey, on 12 June 1976, where she mostly lived until age six because of her father's job. She attended schools in Kiel, including one exchange year in Portland, Oregon. After she graduated with an Abitur in 1995, she studied biology at the Technische Universität Braunschweig and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, graduating with a Diplom in 2001. She acted as a member of the party board of the Green Party in Hamburg between 2001 and 2002. she served as its speaker in matters of women (frauenpolitische Sprecherin) until 2006. She was speaker for health politics of the GAL fraction, and a member of the Budget Committee of the Bundestag, the health committee and the committee of consumer protection, and a substitute member of the science committee. She represented her parliamentary group in sub-committees for information and communication technology and administrative modernisation as well as for public service and human resources. In 2013 she was a candidate for the Bundestag representing Hamburg Wandsbek, but was not elected. She collected only 25 votes, one short of the necessary 26 votes.

Professional career She became CEO of the medical centre's Centre for Molecular Neurobiology of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in 2009. and from 2012 she was also the CEO of the centre for dental health (Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde). in the 29th Rosenheimer Radmarathon. She was 46 years old.