| 2005-present | Juniorprofessor at the Department of Biochemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum Medical School, Germany |
| 2001-2004 | Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Hao Wu at Cornell Medical College, New York, USA |
| 2001 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof. Dr. Peter G. Schultz at The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, USA |
| 1997-2001 | Ph.D. student in Biochemistry with Prof. Dr. R. Huber (Abteilung Strukturforschung) at the Max-Planck-Institut for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany: Biochemical and x-ray crystallographic studies on transcriptional activator MalT and the pyridoxal-5'-phosphate dependent enzymes cystathionine gamma-synthase and cystathionine gamma-lyase. Scholarship of the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds. |
| 1992-1997 | Student in Biochemistry, scholarship of Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Diploma in Biochemistry. Diploma thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. F.X. Schmid in the Department of Biochemistry at University Bayreuth, Germany: NMR-spektroskopische Strukturuntersuchungen an einem Faltungsintermediat von Ribonuklease T1. |
| 1971 | born in Karlsruhe, Germany |
Awards
Berger Fellowship of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (2002-2005)
“Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds”
predoctoral fellowship (1998-2000
Scholarship of the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”
foundation (1996-1997
European Union TEMPUS scholarship
(1995)
“Fonds der
chemischen Industrie” chemistry award (1991)