Academic and professional career
2020 | Fraunhofer Institute “Translationale Neuroinflammation und automatisierte Mikroskopie” |
2020 – | Acting Director, Center of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Göttingen |
2007 – | Full Professor (W3) and Director, Department of Cellular Biochemistry, University Medical Center, Göttingen |
2004 – 2007 | Assistant Professor (C2), University of Freiburg |
2000 – 2004 | Research Group Leader (C1), University of Freiburg |
1998 – 2000 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California San Diego (HHMI), USA with Prof. Dr. S.D. Emr |
1996 – 1998 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Ruhr University Bochum with Prof. Dr. Dr. W.-H. Kunau |
Nov. 2003 | Habilitation, University of Freiburg, Venia Legendi “Biochemistry and Molecular Biology” |
1993 – 1996 | Dissertation, Ruhr University Bochum, with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. W.-H. Kunau (summa cum laude) |
1991 – 1993 | Diploma, Ruhr University Bochum, with Prof. Dr. E.W. Weiler (with distinction) |
1987 – 1993 | Study of Biology and Chemistry, Ruhr University Bochum |
Functions in scientific societies and committees
2019 – | Advisory Board “IMOL”, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw |
2019 – | Board Cluster of Excellence EXC 2067:’ “Multiscale Bioimaging: From molecular machines to networks of excitable cells” |
2017 – | International Scientific Committee (ISC) of the „Regenerative Mechanisms for Health” International Research Agenda Unit, University of Warsaw, Poland, Speaker 2017-2020 |
2017 – 2019 | Speaker, Council Centre for New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Poland |
2017 – | Vice Dean of Sciences, University Medical Center, Göttingen |
2016 – | Speaker SFB 1190: “Compartmental Gates and Contact sites in Cells” |
2011 – 2016 | Acting Director, Center of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Göttingen |
2013 – | Board of Directors, Heart Center Göttingen |
2015 – | Program Director, IMPRS “Molecular Biology” |
2013 – | Board of the International Max Planck Research School – IMPRS “Molecular Biology” |
2010 – | Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen. |
2010 – | Vice spokesperson, SFB860 |
2010 – 2019 | Faculty of 1000, Faculty member |
2009 – | Associated with the European Neuroscience Institute (ENI) |
Collaborative Research Grants
2023 – | DFG Project, SFB1565: „Interconnections of the mitochondrial translation machinery“ |
2019 – | DFG Project, FOR2848: „Investigation of the spatial distribution of OXPHOS complex assembly in mammalian cells” Project leader with Prof Dr S. Jakobs |
2017 – | DFG Project, SFB1286: „Mitochondrial Function and Turnover in Synapses” with Prof Dr H. Urlaub |
2016 – | DFG Project, SFB1190: „Protein transport along the mitochondria carrier pathway” |
July 2012 – | DFG Project, SFB1002: „Heart insufficiency in mitochondrial cardiomyopathies exemplified in Barth Syndrome“ |
2010 – 2023 | DFG Project, SFB860: „Structure and dynamics of the presequence translocase complex in the inner mitochondrial membrane“ |
2007 – 2015 | DFG Project, FOR 967: „Mdm38 and biogenesis of inner membrane protein complexes“ |
2001 – 2006 | DFG Project in the SFB 388 |
Awards and Honors
2022 | ERC Advanced Investigator Grant “MiXpress” |
2022 | Elected EMBO Member |
2020 | Elected Member of the Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen |
2019 | Elected Member of the Academia Europaea |
2018 | Elected Member of the Leopoldina (National Academy of Science) |
2016 | Copernicus Award of the DFG and the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) together with Prof. Dr. A. Chacinska |
2013 | ERC Advanced Investigator Grant “MITRAC” |
2004 | Annual award (Habilitation award) of the “Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft der Universität Freiburg” |
2005 | Young Investigator Award of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) together with the „Schering Stiftung“ |
1998 – 2000 | DFG-Research fellowship (USA), HHMI University of California San Diego |
Links
Journals
- Cell
- Current Biology
- Developmental Cell
- EMBO J.
- J. Cell Science
- Neuron
- Nature
- Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
- Nature Cell Biology
- Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
- Nature Reviews Genetics
- EMBO reports
- Science
- J. Cell Biol.
- Molecular Biology of the Cell
- Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Current Opinion
- PNAS
- J. Biol. Chem.
- Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology