since 09/2008
Professor, Department for Cell and Molecular Biology, Heidelberg University

since 01/2008
Department Head at the German Cancer Research Center

2003-2008
Junior Group Leader (tenure-track) at the German Cancer Research Center

1999-2003
Postdoc, Harvard Medical School

1996-1999
PhD student, European Molecular Biology Laboratory and Heidelberg University

1999-2001
John. F. Kennedy School of Government, MPA Program, Harvard University

1995-1996
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York

1994-1995
State University of New York, Stony Brook

1993-1996
Witten/Herdecke University

1991-1993
Rheinisch-Westfälisch Technische Hochschule Aachen

2007
Johann-Georg Zimmermann Research Award

2005
EMBO Young Investigator Program

2003
Die Junge Akademie an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie und der Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina

• Member of the Executive Board of the Heidelberg Biosciences International Graduate School (HBIGS)
• Member of the CellNetworks
• Coordinator of the FP7 EU consortium CancerPathways

• Emmy-Noether Programm of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• McCloy Stipendium
• Boehringer Ingelheim Ph.D. Fellowship
• Fellowship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
• Fellowship of the Fulbright Kommission