Professional Career

1979

Ph.D. in Biology, University of Düsseldorf

1980 - 1983

Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Clinical Virology, University Erlangen-Nürnberg

1983 - 1988

Assistant Professor, Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne

1988 - 1990

Heisenberg Fellow, University of Cologne and University of Colorado at Boulder

1990 - 1996

Full Professor, Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne

1996 - 2006

Full Professor and Head of the Institute of Genetics, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf

since 2007

Director, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden