Acting Professor ("Vertretung") Faculty of Physics and Earth Science, University of Leipzig, Germany
2006 - present
Group-Leader, jointly at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, and the Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
2004 - 2005
Postdoctoral work at the Department of Physics, University of California in Berkeley
2003
Postdoctoral work at MPI-CBG Dresden
1998 - 2002
PhD work at EMBL Heidelberg; PhD in Physics at the Technical University München
Scientific Awards
2011
Paul Ehrlich- und Ludwig Darmstaedter-Nachwuchspreis
2010
EMBO Young Investigator Award
2009
ARCHES Award, German Federal Ministry of Education and Minerva Foundation
2004
Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
