since 2024: Leader of Research Platform B 
since 2023  PI of the project C 12 (Skin insulin resistance in type II diabetes and its associated  diseases) at the Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC)
since 2023: Senior consultant at PEDP 
2022 - 2023: Visiting postdoctoral fellow at IMS, Cambridge University, UK
Since 2021: Head of Research Group “Translational Metabolism Research”, PEDP, University Hospital Cologne
Since 2021: Consultant at the Polyclinic for Endocrinology, Diabetology and Preventive Medicine
2014 - 2021: Resident at the Polyclinic for Endocrinology, Diabetology and Preventive Medicine
2014 - 2022: Postdoctoral fellow at the MPI for Metabolism Research in the group “Translational
2014: Approbation as medical doctor
2012 - 2015: Dissertation at LMU Munich, Germany, with Prof. Dr. Klaus Parhofer  and Prof. Frederic Kraemer, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
2010 - 2011: Doctorate Program Molecular Medicine with Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Walter Neupert, Adolf Butenandt-Institute, LMU, Munich and Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried
2007 - 2014: Medical School, LMU, Munich, Germany

Awards, Distinctions and professional activities

since 2023: Member of Köln Fortune Board 
since 2022: Member of the Study Advisory Board
2022 - 2023: Walter-Benjamin Fellowship, German Research Association (DFG) with Prof. Sadaf Farooqui, Cambridge University, Cambridge UK
2020 - 2021: Cologne Excellence Cluster for Aging Research rotation, Cologne
2021: Ernst-und-Berta-Scharrer-Award of the German Association of Endocrinology
2019: Karl-Oberdisse-Award of the NRW Association of Endocrinology and Diabetology
2017 - 2018: Postdoctoral Fellowship of the German Center for Diabetes Research
2012 - 2014: Fellow of the German National Academic FoundationFellow of the Föfole-Foundation
2010 - 2011: Doctorate Program Molecular Medicine with Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Walter Neupert, LMU, Munich
2007 - 2015: Fellow of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation