Personal Information

Nationality:

US and Australian

Scientific Career

2000 - present

Director, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics, Dresden

2002 - present

Honorary Professor of Biophysics, Technical University, Dresden

1997 - 2001

Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington

1994 - 1997

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, U.W.

1989 - 1994

Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, U.W.

1988 - 1989

Assistant Research Physiologist, University of California, San Francisco

1985 - 1987

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, UC San Francisco

1984

Postgraduate Research Assistant, Department of Physiology, University of Bristol

1983

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurobiology, Australian National University

Education

1983

Ph.D. in Neurobiology, Australian National University, Canberra

1979

B.Sc. in Pure Mathematics with1st Class Honours, Australian National University

Scientific Honors

2008

Timoshenko Fellow, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

2006

George A. Feigen Memorial Lecture, Stanford University

2004

Member, European Molecular Biology Organization

2000

Member, Max Planck Society

2000

MERIT Award, National Institute of Arthritis & Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases

1996 - 1997

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

1990 - 1996

Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences

1990 - 1992

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship

1988 - 1990

Fondation pour l'Etude du Système Nerveux Fellowship

1981

M.G.F. Fuortes Travelling Scholarship

1979 - 1982

Australian Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Scholarship

1976 - 1978

Australian National Undergraduate Scholarship

Organizations

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Society for Cell Biology

American Physical Society

Biophysical Society

European Molecular Biology Organization

German Biophysical Society

Max Planck Society

Society of General Physiologists