Academic education including degrees

 Subject of studies: Chemistry

1988   Technical University of Berlin, (Diploma in Chemistry)  (Prof. Dr. H.T. Witt)

1991   Technical University of Berlin, (PhD; Dr. rer nat; Physical Chemistry)  (Prof. Dr. H.T. Witt)

1999   University of Freiburg (Habilitation; venia legendi for Biochemistry)

Academic appointments/positions held

1988 - 1990   Research Assistant; TU Berlin; Faculty of Chemistry (Prof. Dr. H.T. Witt)

1991              Post-doctoral Fellow at LMU München; Faculty of Biology (Prof. Dr. R.G. Herrmann)

1991 - 1993   Post-doctoral Fellow of DFG; Pennsylvania State University, USA, (Prof. Dr. D.A. Bryant)

1993 - 1999   Hochschulassistent (C1); University Freiburg; Faculty of Biology (Prof. W. Haehnel)

2000 - 2017   Privatdozent, University Marburg; Faculty of Medicine

since 2017     Professor (Apl.), University Marburg; Faculty of Medicine

Miscellaneous (academic, council, editorial and advisory activities and awards)

1991 - 1993    DFG Scholarship

2003  - 2014   Principal investigator of the DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB 593

                      “Mechanisms of cellular compartmentalisation and the relevance for disease”

2012 - date     Principal investigator of DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB 987

                      “Microbial Diversity in Environmental Signal Response”