Curriculum vitae
Born | September 25th, 1972 in Haiger, Germany |
Academic Qualifications | |
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 | |
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) |