since January 2013
Professor of Biochemistry at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

June 2010
Habilitation for Biochemistry at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Venia legendi for biochemistry

July 2005 - 2012
Project leader Collaborative Research Center 665, TP A7, extended 2009: A7-2

Aug. 2004 - 2012
Staff Scientist/group leader at the Institute for Exp. Endocrinology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin

2004 - 2012
Established a Junior group »Neurobiology of Selenium«, at the Neuroscience Research Center, Charité

Nov. 2002 - 2004
Postdoc (DFG) at Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Charité Berlin, Prof. Köhrle

May 2002 - Oct. 2002
Postdoc in Dept. Molecular Internal Medicine in Würzburg, Prof. Josef Köhrle

Jan. 1999 - Apr. 2002
Ph.D. thesis in the laboratory of Prof. Michael Sendtner, Würzburg, under the supervision of Prof. Martin Heisenberg (Genetics). Grade 1.11 (magna cum laude)

May 1998 - Dec. 1998
Diploma thesis, Institute for Biochemistry, Prof. Gerhard Krauss, Bayreuth, graduated as Diplom-Biochem. (univ.), grade 1.0 (hons)

Nov. 1996 - Nov. 1997
Special volunteer at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, USA, Stroke Branch, NINDS under guidance of Dr. John Hallenbeck Stipends from Siemens Med-GT, Erlangen, and Hans-Krüger-Stiftung, Berlin

1992 - 1998
Study of Biochemistry at the University of Bayreuth, Germany