Scientific Career History

2008 – present   Director, Interfaculty Institute for Cell Biology, University of Tübingen, Germany

2013     ERC-Advanced Grant (EU) for the project: Mutaediting: Mutation-driven immunoediting of human cancer?

2010     Co-founder of the biotechnology enterprise SYNIMMUNE GmbH

2000     Co-founder of the biotechnology enterprises immatics GmbH and CureVac GmbH

1996 – present   Chair, Department of Immunology (Full Professor, C4), Interfaculty Institute for Cell Biology, University of Tübingen, Germany

1993 – 1996   Head of Department, Tumor-Virus-Immunology Section, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg; appointment as Professor, University of Heidelberg

1991     Habilitation in immunology at the University of Tübingen

1988 – 1993   Academic teaching duties at the Universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg

1987 – 1993   Group leader at the Department of Immunogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany

1985 – 1987   Scientific Member of the Basel Institute for Immunology (Minor H antigens and self tolerance)

1982 – 1985   Postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Michael J. Bevan, Ph.D., at Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA, USA (Self tolerance of cytotoxic T lymphocytes)

1980 – 1982   PhD thesis in the laboratory of Professor Dr. Jan Klein at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany. (Minor histocompatibility antigens)

1980     Diploma thesis in the laboratory of Professor Dr. Jan Klein at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany

1974 – 1980   Study of biology at the University of Tübingen, Germany