since 10/2024
W3 Professor of Immunology and Director of the Institute of Immunology, University Medical Center Rostock, University of Rostock

04/2012 – 09/2024
W2 Professor of Molecular Infectious Immunology at the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

04/2007 – 03/2012
W2 Professor of Molecular Infectious Immunology at the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

04/2006 – 03/2007
Group Leader at the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

02/2003 – 03/2006
Postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, U.S.A., as part of the DFG's Emmy Noether Program

05/2002 – 01/2003
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene at the Technical University of Munich

06/1998 - 05/2002
Ph.D. Researcher (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene at the Technical University of Munich

10/1992 - 04/1998
Studies in Biology, Diploma, Technical University of Munich