| since 2005 | 
Group leader at the Department of Molecular Biology (formerly Biochemistry I) in Göttingen | 
| 2007 | 
Habilitation in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 
| 2000 – 2004 | 
Group leader at the Institute for Virology in Heidelberg | 
| 1996 – 2000 | 
Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Larry Gerace at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, USA | 
| 1995 | 
PhD thesis in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Wieland Huttner at the Institute for Neurobiology in Heidelberg | 
| 1992 | 
Diploma thesis in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wille at the Institute for Genetics in Cologne | 
| 1985 – 1992 | 
Biology studies at the Universities of Bonn, Jerusalem and Cologne |