Doctorate in Biochemistry, University of Trieste, Italy Thesis: Continuous immunostimulation and mucopolysaccharidosis: increase in mobilization and catabolism of heparan sulfate.
04/1983 - 10/1985
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute J. Monod, Paris.
10/1985 - 12/1988
Postdoctoral Fellow, EMBL, Heidelberg
01/1989 - 06/1991
Staff Scientist in Kai Simons' group, EMBL, Heidelberg
07/1991 - 12/1997
Research Group Leader at Cell Biology Program EMBL, Heidelberg
01/1998 - present
Max Planck Director, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden
Fellowships, Honors, Awards, Memberships
Fellowships
Association pour la Recherche contre le Cancer Apr. - Oct. 1983
FEBS short term fellowship Oct. - Dec. 1983
Italian Cancer Research Association, Milan, Italy, Jan. 1984 - July 1985
EMBO short term fellowship Oct. - Dec. 1985
Anna Villa Rusconi Foundation, Varese, Italy, Jan. - Mar 1986
EMBO long term fellowship Mar. 1986 - Apr. 1987
EMBO long term fellowship May 1987 - Dec. 1988
Honors / Awards
FEBS Anniversary Prize, Helsinki, 1 July 1994
EMBO Member, April 1996
Max Planck Director, January 1998
Chiara D’Onofrio Prize, Riva del Garda, 1999
Honorary Professor of the Technische Universitaet (University of Technology) Dresden
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 8 February 2006
Memberships
The Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Foundation Grant Review Panel
