Since 2004
Professor of Biochemistry (C4) at the University of Duisburg-Essen
2000 - 2004
Leader of the research group "Molecular and Structural Biophysics" at the Max-Planck-Institute for “Molecular Physiology”, Dortmund
2002
Sabbatical at the “National Institute of Medical Research” (NIMR), Molecular Structure, Mill Hill, London
1998 - 2000
NMR research group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for “Enzymology of Protein Folding”, Halle, Prof. Gunter Fischer
1997 - 1998
Foreign exchange scholarship of the Max-Planck-Society,
TMR-scholarship of the European Union,
Postdoctoral Fellow at the “Medical Research Council” (MRC), Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Cambridge, England, Prof. Gabriele Varani
1995 - 1997
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for “Molecular Physiology”, Research Group “Physical Biochemistry”, Dortmund, Prof. Roger Goody
1995
Sabbatical at the "Institute for Biology and Biotechnology", Research Group “Protein Structure and Function”, Crete, Greece, Prof. Michalis Kokkinides
1994 - 1995
Postdoctoral Fellow at the „Institute for Structure and Chemistry of Biopolymers”, University of Bayreuth, Prof. Paul Rösch
Education
2000
Habilitation in Biochemistry, University of Halle-Wittenberg
1994
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Bayreuth
1986 - 1991
Study of Biology, University of Regensburg
Functions
2008 - 2010
Committee member of the “Centre of Medical Biotechnology” (ZMB), University of Duisburg-Essen
2008 - 2009
Vice-Dean of the Faculty of “Biology and Geography”, University of Duisburg-Essen
2006 - 2008
Dean of the Faculty of “Biology and Geography”, University of Duisburg-Essen
2005 - 2007
Vice-Direktor of the “Institute of Biology”, University of Duisburg-Essen
2002 - 2005
Committee member of the „Interdisciplinary Centre of Magnetic Resonance”, Dortmund