PhD with Volker Kasche within the Graduate School of TU Hamburg Harburg and University Hamburg. Post-doc with Lila Gierasch at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Group Leader at MPI for Biochemistry, Martinsried. Tenure-track professor for Biochemistry at University of Potsdam and since 2014 full professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Hamburg. Since 2016 Managing Director of Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Prizes, awards, memberships
Heisenberg fellowship award; Lundbeck foundation, Denmark; Joliot professorship at ESPCI, Paris, France; Innovation award, MDI BioLab, Maine, USA; Hamburg teaching award; Claussen-Simon-Stiftung award for distinguished project within ‘Our Universities’; Member of the German Society for Cell Biology and German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Member-at-large of the American Biophysical Society.