Group Leader CV
Education:
1988-1993 Undergraduate studies in Biology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany
(Diploma Graduation in 1993).
1993-1997 Graduate student in the Department of Developmental Biology and Molecular Pathology, University of Bielefeld, Germany. (PhD Graduation in 1997)
2007 Habilitation in Genetics, Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina, Braunschweig, Germany.
Employment:
1997-2000 Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychiatry and Genetics, Philadelphia, USA.
2000-2001 Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Mammalian Genetics at the National Research Centre for Environment and Health (GSF), Munich, Germany.
2001-2007 Head of the Young Investigator Research Group “Infection Genetics” at the German Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF, now renamed into Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany.
Since 08/2007 Senior Academic Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies.
Major Grants:
- Wellcome Trust: Genetic dissection of Streptococcus pyogenes induced macrophage necrosis
- German National Genome Network: GMC – Host Pathogen Interaction Screen
- FW6 EUMODIC: "The European Mouse Disease Clinic", Work Package 2.4 "Infection and Immunity".