Since 04/2022: Professor (W3) and Director, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, University of Cologne
2014-2022: Associate Professor (W2), Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Regensburg
2010-2014: Research group leader and Residency, Microbiology Institute, University Hospital Erlangen
2008-2009: Postdoctoral fellow and Residency, Microbiology Institute, University Hospital Erlangen
2005-2008: Postdoctoral fellow and Residency, Department of Internal Medicine 4, University Hospital Erlangen
2005: Doctoral thesis, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Awards, Distinctions and professional activities

since 2017: Elected Member of the Council of European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society
since 2017: Elected Deputy Speaker of the Fachgruppe Infection Immunology of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie (DGHM) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie (DGfI)
2012: Young Investigator Award, German Society of Hygiene and Microbiology
2012: Lecture Award 4th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Nephrology, Hamburg
2007: Scholarship of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research, University Hospital Erlangen, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
2006: Staedtler-Thesis Award, Medical Faculty, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg