Prof Thomas von Woedtke is now a professor of Plasma Medicine at Greifswald University Medicine and program manager for Plasma Medicine at Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Greifswald, Germany.

Thomas von Woedtke (born 1962 in Görlitz) studied pharmacy from 1983 to 1988, at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald .He joined in 1988  the Central Institute for Diabetes "Gerhard Katsch" Karlsburg, at the University of Greifswald and obtained a doctorate in pharmaceutical technology at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University 1996. In 1993, Mr. von Woedtke also obtained the qualification as a specialist pharmacist for drug control.

From 1997 to 2005 Thomas von Woedtke was a research assistant at the Institute for Pharmacy in the Department of Biopharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology and at the Research Center Sensor Technology Greifswald and obtained his habilitation and the license to teach in pharmaceutical technology at the mathematical and natural science department Faculty of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald.

Since 2005 he has been a member of the Leibnitz Institute for Plasma Research and Technology (INP Greifswald) and since 2008 head of research in "Plasma Medicine". Since 2011 he has also held a professorship for plasma medicine at the University Medical Center Greifswald.

Thomas von Woedtke is a member of the Protestant Research Academy of the Union of Evangelical Churches (UEK) and the German Society for Hospital Hygiene. Thomas von Woedtke has been a member of the Scheele Society since 1989, and the second chairman of the board since 2004. He is co‐editor of the journal Clinical Plasma Medicine and deputy head of the National German Center of Plasma Medicine.