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Tina Turner’s compassionate story is truly inspiring. After receiving dialysis for nine months and eventually receiving a transplant, she now encourages publicly to be more aware for first signs of kidney disease and sign the organ donor register. On September 18, 2021 at the Life/2021 nephrology congress Tina’s powerful voice will sound around the world to motivate CKD patients to stay positive and to increase global awareness for chronic kidney disease.

With more than 25-years of experience, renowned TV journalist and presenter, Kristina zur Mühlen has moderated and anchored over 5,000 news and science shows on public broadcasting programs, and live events.
In 1993, after embarking on a diploma in Physics in Jena, Kristina began her career as a TV journalist and then in 2002 as a presenter. Her first moderating post was with public broadcaster NDR for a regional news show entitled ‘Hamburg Journal’, followed by the regional news show ‘Lokalzeit aus Aachen’ in 2006, and then, her first science show entitled ‘Q21’, both with WDR. However, her regular appearance as one of the main news anchors at nationwide most-known TV prime news ‘tagesschau’ and ‘tagesschau24’ at ARD is doubtlessly the most remarkable milestone in her long-year career as a professional speaker.
With her science background, Kristina’s passion is a never-ending quest for exploring the answers to the fundamental questions of life, nature and the very essence of science; both of the natural and manmade. She understands her audience and crafts her abilities to draw their attention to even the most demanding of topics. Her unique presentation style, along with her authentically warm personality, engages and entertains her audiences. Not rarely she injects her witty humor and smart jokes, using her expertise and her own reporting style to simplify complex topics and make academic facts even entertaining, interesting and easy to understand. This was the case of the well-known ZDF / 3sat science program ‘nano’, in which Kristina served for ten years as the main presenter. Also on stage, where she has entertained her audiences for over 16 years with topics like future mobility, urban development, sustainability, health, robotics and of course education.
The future of children is significantly important to Kristina zur Mühlen. Not only because she is a mother of a child herself, but also as an ambassador of the Peter Ustinov Foundation, she supports various projects that promote educational development and foster natural creativity of children. With her further roll as an ambassador for children’s protection at GESPCAN, the German Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, she also contributes her work to the Hamburg Foundation ‘Phönikks’ - Families Live with Cancer.