Scientific Career History

Present           Professor and head of the group “Translational Immunology of Infection” in the Department of Immunology at the University of Tübingen

1996 - 2011     Head of research group “Immunology and Cell Biology” at the Institute of Immunology Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Tübingen.

1994 - 1996     Research assistant at the Institute of Experimental Immunology, Department Pathology (Prof R.M. Zinkernagel) at the University of Zurich.

1991 - 1994     PhD-thesis at the Institute of Virology, Giessen “The role of CD8+ T cells in the immunopathogenesis after Borna disease virus infection”.

1990 - 1991     Diploma-thesis at the Institute of Virology, University Giessen (Prof. Dr. R. Rott) in the group Prof. Dr. L. Stitz.

1988 - 1989     Biology studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee U.S.A.

1984 - 1988     Biology studies at the Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen