| 1977-1983 |
Study of human medicine at the University of Heidelberg |
| 1983 |
Promotion at the `Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum,DKFZ´ Heidelberg |
| 1983-1984 |
Scientific assistant at the `Kinderzentrum München´, Hospital for Social Pediatrics, Munich |
| 1984-1990 |
Scientific associate at the Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn |
| 1990 |
Habilitation (associate professor) in the field of human genetics, at the Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn |
| 1990-1995 |
Scientific associate at the Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn |
| 1995-2004 |
Director of the DFG funded clinical research group `Genetic mechanisms of eating disorders and obesity´, at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Philipps-University Marburg |
| 1997 |
Assistant medical director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Philipps-University Marburg |
| 2004- |
Director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 2008 |
President of the German Society ofChild and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy |
