Dresden University of Technology Professor of Molecular Cell Biology
Research Experience
01/1981 - 07/1981
Research Assistant: Department of Zoology, University College, London
Summer, 1983
Honors student program: Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, N.J.
1985 - 1987
Graduate student: Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC, Cambridge, England, "The establishment of division axes in early C.elegans embryos" Supervisor Dr. John White
Postdoctoral Research: University of California San Francisco, "The mechanism of chromosome movement studied in vitro", The laboratory of Prof T.J. Mitchison
1993 – 1997
Group leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
1998 - 1999
Visiting Senior Scientist, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
1999 - present
Director, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Scientific Honours and Memberships
1984
UCL Dpt. of Zoology. Award for highest final year examination mark