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Curriculum Vitae

Academic Education with Graduation

  • 1987-1993 Study of Biochemistry at the University of Tübingen with Diploma in Biochemistry (Majors: biochemistry, organic chemistry, pharmocology and toxicology) and Diploma thesis under supervision of Dr. Otfried Marquardt at the Federal Research Institute for Viral Diseases of Animals, Tübingen

Scientific Graduation

  • 2003 Habilitation in Genetics, University of Tübingen, Germany, mentored by Prof. Vera Hemleben
  • 1995 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Genetics, supervised by Dr. Christiane Gebhardt, Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Dept. Plant Breeding and Yield Physiology, Cologne

Professional Career

  • since 2005 Professor (Chair) of Plant Molecular Biology/Botany, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU)
  • 1999-2005 Head of independent research group, Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Dept. Plant Breeding and Yield Physiology, Cologne
  • 1998 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Dept. Molecular Genetics, Cologne
  • 1996-1998 Postdoctoral Fellow at the John Innes Centre, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, U.K.

Others

  • 2015 Top Author Award received from American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)
  • since 2015 Scientific Advisory Board, Viikki Plant Science Center (ViPS), Helsinki, Finland
  • 2013-2016 Head (part-time) of Copenhagen Plant Science Center (CPSC), Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2013 Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, and the Research and Innovation Centre of the Istituto Agrario San Michele all'Adige, Edmund Mach Foundation (FEM), Italy
  • 2011 Offer of a Chair in Plant Biology at the University of York, U.K.
  • 2011 Offer of a Chair in Plant Biology at the University College of Cork (UCC), Ireland
  • since 2010 Member of Faculty of 1000
  • 2009-2010 Director, Department Biology I, LMU
  • since 2008 Faculty Board, Faculty of Biology, LMU
  • since 2005 Managing Board, Department Biology I, LMU
  • 2003-2005 Heisenberg Scholarship of the DFG
  • 2003 Karl-Lohmann-Prize of the German Society for Biological Chemistry
  • 2001-2003 Habilitation Scholarship of the German Science Foundation (DFG)
  • 1999-2000 Habilitation Scholarship of the Claussen Foundation
  • 1997-1998 EMBO Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship