Education and Positions

2010 -
Division Head, Redox Regulation, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

2009
Habilitation in Biochemistry, Faculty of Biosciences, Heidelberg

2004 - 2008
Head of Marie Curie Excellence Team 'Redox Signaling'

2003 – 2010
Head of Theodor-Boveri Junior Research Group 'Redox Regulation', German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

1998 – 2003
Research Associate in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Peter Cresswell, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, USA

1994 - 1997
Ph.D. thesis (Dr. rer. nat.) in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Rammensee, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg and Institute for Immunology, University of Tübingen, Germany ('Mechanisms of intracellular proteolysis in the class I pathway of antigen processing'; summa cum laude)

1994
Diploma thesis in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Rammensee, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany ('Characterization of intermediary products in antigen processing')

1989 – 1994
Study of Biochemistry at the Free University of Berlin

Summer student at the Cambridge Centre for Protein Engineering, MRC, Cambridge, U.K. (Prof. Dr. A. R. Fersht)
Summer student at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel. Dept. of Chemical Immunology (Prof. Dr. Y. Yarden)
Summer student at Rockefeller University, New York. Laboratory of Cell Biology (Prof. Dr. G. Blobel)

1987 – 1989
Civil Service in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Dr. W. Stoffel at the Institute for Biochemistry, University of Cologne



Awards and fellowships

2009
Chica- and Heinz-Schaller-Award

2004 - 2008
Marie Curie Excellence Grant

2000 – 2003
Postdoctoral fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Chevy Chase, MD, USA)

1998 – 2000
Postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

1989 - 1994
Scholarship from the 'Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes' (German National Merit Foundation)