Curriculum vitae

2005 Dr. rer. nat. (Biology) Centre for Molecular Biology (ZMBH), University of Heidelberg
2005 – 2006 Postdoctoral scientist at the ZMBH, University of Heidelberg
2006 – 2008 Postdoctoral fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK
2008 – 2012 Group leader at the Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt
2009 – 2012 Adjunct Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt (CEF) “Macromolecular Complexes”, Frankfurt
Since 2012 Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular Biology (formerly Biochemistry I), University Medical Center (UMG), Göttingen
Since 2014 Speaker of the PhD program “Molecular Biology of Cells”, Göttingen
Since 2019 Speaker of the Göttingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB), Göttingen

Awards and Honors

2019 Selected as speaker of the Göttingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB)
2019 Selection as Associated member of the Excellence Cluster “Multiscale Bioimaging”, Georg-August University, Göttingen
2010 Selection for “Young Leaders in Science” Program of the Schering Stiftung
2009 FEBS Distinguished Young Investigator Award by the Federation of European Biochemical Societies
2008 Selection as Adjunct Investigator by the Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt
2006 – 2008 FEBS Long-term postdoctoral Fellowship
March 2005 PhD awarded with distinction (Summa cum laude) by the Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg