• Diplom 1996 in Biology University of Braunschweig / HZI
• PhD 1999 University of Wuerzburg, Institute for Medical Radiation       and Cell Research (MSZ)
• EMBO postdoctoral fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund /        Cancer Research UK, London
• Group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry,                        Martinsried, 2004-2012
• Habilitation for Molecular Cell Biology at the Ludwig Maximilians         University, Munich, 2009
• Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the MLU Institute for               Physiological Chemistry since 2012