Prof. Dr. med. Hagen Thieme, born in 1964, studied human medicine at the Free University of Berlin until 1995. As a DAAD scholarship holder, he worked at the Joslin Diabetes Center and Eye Clinic at Harvard School in Boston, USA, during his medical training from 1993 to 1994. After the state examination, he first worked as an internship doctor (AIP) in the eye clinic of the Free University in Berlin and then switched to the Institute for Clinical Physiology at the FU as a research assistant. The doctorate followed in 1996. In 2001, Prof. Thieme took over a medical position at the eye clinic of the Charité University Medicine Berlin. In 2005 he was appointed senior physician and in the same year moved to the University Eye Clinic in Mainz. Before he was appointed to the W3 professorship for ophthalmology at Otto von Guericke University, he worked there as a senior physician and deputy clinic director. The specialist in ophthalmology also completed an additional qualification for a Master of Health and Business Administration while working. 

Thieme Hagen In addition to many years of extensive experience in the entire spectrum of diagnostics and treatment of eye diseases, Prof. Thieme has specialized in glaucoma operations, retinal operations, trabeculectomies, and lens implants for a spectrum of patients of all ages. In recent years, he has placed a special focus on the treatment of glaucoma (glaucoma), especially in young patients. Prof. Thieme is involved in this area as a member of the board of the Glaucoma Section in the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG) and is active in the nationwide self-help initiative "Glaucoma in Children" to raise awareness among medical colleagues, Midwives, and healthcare facilities and to raise public awareness of symptoms of this condition in newborns. He would like to continue this commitment in his new job and also intensify it in Saxony-Anhalt through events and campaigns.

The professional competence in the previous operative activity of Prof. Thieme was also highly recognized in the fact that the University Eye Clinic Mainz was named one of six reference centers in Germany for minimally invasive small incision cataract surgery (so-called MICS technique). 

He focuses his research on glaucoma pharmacology (clinical and experimental) and glaucoma surgery (clinical and experimental). This also includes his commitment to interdisciplinary materials research in eye surgery.