since 2006 Full Professor (W3) and Chair, Institute of Zoology, Developmental Biology Unit, University of Cologne, Germany | Projects on zebrafish and mouse development and physiology (skin, bone and muscle development and homeostasis; would healing; energy homeostasis)
2001 - 2006: Tenured independent group leader at the Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany | Projects on zebrafish development and physiology (dorsoventral patterning; cell migration; pituitary, skin and craniofacial development; wound healing)
2001: Habilitation and award of 'venia legendi' in Developmental Biology at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany
1996 - 2000: Independent Junior Group leader in the Hans-Spemann Laboratories at the Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany | Projects on zebrafish development
1994 - 1996: Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Andrew McMahon at Harvard University, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Cambridge, USA | Projects on zebrafish and mouse development
1990 - 1993: PhD student in the laboratory of Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard at the Max-Planck Institute of Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany | Title of PhD thesis: Isolation and characterization of genes and mutants to analyze early pattern formation of the zebrafish embryo (Graduation Jan. 1994)
1983 - 1990: Studies of Biochemistry at the Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany
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Chair of the CMMC
