- since 2015: Cooptation to the Faculty of Natural Sciences I, MLU.
- since 2012: Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the Institute for Physiological Chemistry, MLU.
- July 2009: Habilitation and Venia legendi for Molecular Cell Biology, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany.
- 2004 - 2012: Junior Group Leader in the Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried near Munich, Germany.
- 2000 - 2004: EMBO postdoctoral fellow, Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute (formerly ICRF), London, UK.
- 1997: Visiting scientist / collaboration partner at the EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.
- 1996 - 1999: PhD thesis, Institute for Medical Radiation and Cell Research (MSZ), University of Wuerzburg, Germany.
- 1990 - 1996: Studies of Biology (Dipl.), TU Braunschweig and Helmholtz Center for Infection Research.
