Curriculum vitae

Main Research Areas
  • Metabolic Adaptation
  • Sepsis
Professional Career
Since 2020 Postdoctoral researcher, Jena University Hospital and Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology—Hans Knöll Institute; Head: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Weis.
2020 Dr. rer. nat. in Immunology, “magna cum laude”, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany.
2015 – 2019 Doctoral researcher, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology—Hans Knöll Institute; Project: “Modulation of dendritic cell function by the fungal quorum sensing molecule farnesol”. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Oliver Kurzai.
2014 – 2015 PhD student in Biochemistry; Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research.
2007 – 2013 Diploma in Biology, Central University of Venezuela;  Project: „Role of regulatory T cells in the immunopathology of HIV-infected children”

Publications

Guerra J, Jentho E, Schäuble S, Scicluna B P, Vivas W, Martínez-Alarcón D, Groth M, King E, Röstel F, Hirth G, Soares M P, WiechT, Panagiotou G, Bauer M, Hoerr V, Weis S# (2025) Control of renal central carbon metabolism by heme oxygenase-1. iScience 29(1), 114370.
Xu LL, Zhou Z, Schäuble S, Vivas W, Dlubatz K, Bauer M, Weis S, Singer M, Lukaszewski R, Panagiotou G# (2025) Multi-omics and -organ insights into energy metabolic adaptations in early sepsis onset. Adv Sci 12(30), e04418.
von Loeffelholz C, Winkler R, Weigel C, Piskor EM, Vivas W, Rauchfuß F, Settmacher U, Rubio I, Weis S, Gräler MH, Bauer M, Kosan C (2024) Increased peritoneal B1-like cells during acute phase of human septic peritonitis. iScience 27(7), 110133.
Weis S, King IL, Vivas W (2024) To sense or not to sense, Paneth cell regulation of mucosal immunity. Cell Host Microbe 32(10), 1648-1650.
Schnizer C, Andreas N, Vivas W, Kamradt T, Baier M, Kiehntopf M, Glöckner S, Scherag A, Löffler B, Kolanos S, Guerra J, Pletz MW, Weis S (2023) Persistent humoral and CD4+ TH cell immunity after mild SARS-COV-2 infection-the CoNAN long-term study. Front Immunol 13, 1095129.
Vivas W, Weis S (2022) Tidy up - The unfolded protein response in sepsis. Front Immunol 13, 980680. (Review)
Marolda A, Hünniger K, Böttcher S, Vivas W, Löffler J, Figge MT, Kurzai O (2020) Candida species-dependent release of IL-12 by dendritic cells induces different levels of NK cell stimulation. J Infect Dis 221(12), 2060-2071.
Vivas W, Leonhardt I, Hünniger K, Häder A, Marolda A, Kurzai O (2019) Multiple signaling pathways involved in human dendritic cell maturation are affected by the fungal quorum-sensing molecule farnesol. J Immunol 203(11), 2959-2969.