since 2000: Professor of Plant Pathology, Kaiserslautern University

1998: Habilitation

1990-2000: Postdoc, Konstanz University (K. Mendgen lab)

1989-1990: Postdoc, Max Plack Institute, Köln (K. Hahlbrock lab)

1987-1989: Postdoc, Stanford University (USA) (V. Walbot lab)

1986-1987: Postdoc, Federal Institute of Technology (H. Hennecke lab)

1986: Promotion at Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich; Switzerland