Scientific Career

1976

MD, University of Hamburg, Germany

1976 - 1977

Post-doctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany

1977 - 1979

Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

1979 - 1980

Research Associate, Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

1981 - 1985

Junior Group Leader, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry, Department of Neurochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

1985 - 1990

Group Leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

1991 - 2000

Professor and Chair, Institute for Neurobiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany

since 1998

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

since 2002

Honorary Professor of Neurobiology, Dresden University of Technology