Biography on HMU website (in German)
Academic positions
- Professor of Physiology (W3), Institute of Mind Brain and Behavior, Faculty of Medicine, HMU Health and Medical University, Potsdam, Germany
- Chancellor’s Fellow, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, UK
- Postdoctoral fellow with Mario de Bono in the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
- Research Fellow, Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK
- Postdoctoral fellow with Damian Brunner at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Education
- PhD in Cell Biology, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany and Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
- Diploma in Biology, University of Göttingen, Germany
Research Support
| Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | Research Grant (with Thorsten Pfirrmann) |
| Medical Research Council | New Investigator Research Grant |
| Wellcome Trust | Seed Award in Science |
| The Physiological Society and NC3Rs | Research Grant |
| University of Edinburgh | Principal’s Career Development Award |
| European Union | Co-I on COST Grant |
| Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre | Seedcorn Award |
| Wellcome Trust | ISSF Award |
| The Royal Society | Research Grant |
| Moray Endowment Fund | Equipment grant |
| Swiss National Science Foundation | Fellowship for Advanced Researchers |
| Swiss National Science Foundation | Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| DAAD | Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| FEBS | Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| EU/Marie Curie | Individual Postdoc Fellowship |
| EMBO | Long-term Postdoc Fellowship |
| Roche Research Foundation | PhD Fellowship |