Curriculum Vitae
1990-1995 University Training in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hamburg University
1994-1996 Scientific work at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Heidelberg
1995-1998 Doctoral thesis at Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen
1998-2002 Scientific work at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, USA
2002-2008 Group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
(MPI-CBG), Dresden
2008-now Professor of Animal Physiology at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural
Sciences at Heinrich-Heine- University Duesseldorf
2011 Offer of Professorship (W3) at the School of Medicine at the University of Technology
Munich (TUM)
2013-now Director of the Institute of Beta Cell Biology at the German Diabetes Center as
secondary employment, Duesseldorf