| Born |
September 25th, 1972 in Haiger, Germany |
| Academic Qualifications |
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| 2000 – 2003 |
PhD student, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany; Grade: Summa cum laude |
| 2001 |
Visiting scientist: Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben, Germany (with U. Sonnewald) |
| 1994 – 2000 |
Graduate student of Agricultural Sciences, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany |
| 1998 – 1999 |
Diploma thesis at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre of Chemistry, Biology, and Agriculture of the University Unicamp Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Academic Appointments |
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| Since 2022 |
Director and Professor (W3) at the Department of Phytopathology, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany |
| 2020-2022 |
Professor (W3) in Molecular Botany, Ulm University, Germany |
| Since 2020 |
Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK |
| 2015 – 2020 |
Principal Investigator at the Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre, UK |
| 2012 – 2020 |
Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK |
| 2011 |
Habilitation in and Venia legendi for Phytopathology and Cell Biology |
| 2006 – 2012 |
Research Group Leader, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany |
| 2005 – 2006 |
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Justus Liebig University Gießen (with K.H. Kogel) |
| 2004 – 2005 |
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington State University, USA (with D. von Wettstein) |
