| 1992 - 1998 | Undergraduate studies in Chemistry ("Vordiplom") and Biochemistry ("Diplom"), Free University of Berlin, Germany | 
| 1997 - 1998 | Erasmus exchange student at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie, Montpellier, France | 
| 1998 | Diploma Thesis at Lund University, Sweden | 
| 1998 - 2003 | Graduate student with Prof. M. Sattler and Prof. M.J. Macias at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany | 
| 2003 | PhD, Free University of Berlin / EMBL Heidelberg ("summa cum laude") | 
| 2003 - 2008 | Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Julie Forman-Kay at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada | 
| 2008 - 2017 | Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany | 
| Since 2017 | Group Leader / Lecturer at the University of Regensburg, Germany | 
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