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Curriculum Vitae

1969-1973 Diplom-Biologie, University of Düsseldorf, Germany, 1973-1974 Diploma thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. W. Kunz, Institute of Genetics, University Düsseldorf, 1975-1976 Ph.D. thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. W. Kunz, Institute of Genetics, University Düsseldorf, 1977-1978 Postdoc (DFG Research Fellowship) in the group of Prof. Dr. Susan Gerbi, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 1978-1980 Scientific employee with Prof. Dr. O. Hess, Institute of Genetics, University Düsseldorf, 1980-1984 Scientific employee with Prof. Dr. G. Schütz, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg.

1985 Habilitation for Genetics, University of Karlsruhe, 1985-1990 Independent group leader, Gene technology group, Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, 1991-2016 Full Professor of Genetics (C4) at Justus Liebig University Giessen, 1999-2001 Founding dean of the faculty FB08: Biology and chemistry at Justus Liebig University Giessen.

2003–2010 Founding spokesperson of the transregional network on chromatin research in the Universities of Giessen and Marburg (DFG Forschergruppe 531). 2010-2016 Founding spokesperson of the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre TRR81: Chromatin Changes in Differentiation and Malignancies. This international network combines chromatin research at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, the Philipps University Marburg, the Erasmus University MC Rotterdam as well as the Max-Planck-Inst. Bad Nauheim.