Group head
- since 2024
DFG Review Board (Fachkollegium) Basic Research in Biology and Medicine; subject area Cell Biology
- since 2020
Full professor (W2) and Chair for Cell & Developmental Biology, Saarland University, Faculty of Medicine & ZHMB, Campus Homburg, Germany
- 2011-2021
Independent Research Group Leader and Principal Investigator, research group “Cell polarity and cancer”, CECAD Cologne, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Germany
- 2007-2010
Post-doctoral researcher with Dr. John G. Collard, Division of Cell Biology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2007
PhD degree (Promotion Dr. rer.nat.), University of Muenster, Germany (summa cum laude)
- 2003-2007
PhD student and subsequent post-doctoral research with Prof. Dr. Klaus Ebnet, Institutes of Cell Biology and Medical Biochemistry, University Hospital Muenster, Germany
- 2003
Diploma in Biochemistry, University of Hannover, Germany; Diploma thesis, Max-Planck Institute for Experimental Endocrinology and University of Hannover, Germany
- 2003
Research trainee, Division of Neuroendocrinology, Max-Planck Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, and University of Hannover, Germany (Prof. K. Bauer)
- 2002
Research trainee with Prof. C. A. Mason and Dr. Heike Heuer, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University New York, USA
- 1998-2003
Studies in Biochemistry (Diplomstudiengang Biochemie), University of Hannover, Germany