since 2020  Full Professor for Nanophysiology at Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)

2019  Calls for Professorship in Nanophysiology at RPTU and for Cell Physiology at Universität Hohenheim

2018  Prolongation of Junior Reseach Group at FMP after positive mid-term evaluation by external reviewers

2016  Habilitation about “Functions and Mechanisms of Adaptor-Mediated Protein Transport” at Freie Universität (FU) Berlin (venia legendi in biochemistry)

since 2013  Junior Research Group Leader (“Membrane Traffic and Cell Motility”) at Leibniz-Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP)

since 2011  Co-Project Leader in the Collaborative Research Center SFB958 ("Structural and functional organization of endocytic scaffolds within the periactive zone")

2006 – 2012  Postdoctoral Research Associate in the group of Prof. Volker Haucke at FU Berlin

2005 – 2006  Postdoctoral Research Associate in the group of Prof. Thomas J. Jentsch at the Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH)

2002 – 2005  Doctorate Studies in Biochemistry, ZMNH & Universität Hamburg (advisor: Prof. Thomas J. Jentsch)

1997 – 2002  Studies in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Universität Hamburg (diploma thesis advisor: Prof. W. Deppert & Dr. U. Knippschild)

1995 – 1997  Attendance of Erasmus-von-Rotterdam Gymnasium in Viersen

1994 – 1995  Attendance of Sanger High School in California, USA, during foreign exchange year

• Hans-Dietrich Herrmann PhD Award for Molecular Medicine (2006)
• Fellowship from the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes” (German Academic Scholarship Foundation, 2000)
• Fellowship from the “Cusanuswerk” (declined in favor of the fellowship from the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes”, 2000)

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