1985

Diploma in Biochemistry, Free University of Berlin

1990 

PhD, EMBL, Heidelberg

1997

Habilitation, Faculty of Biology (Zoology), University of Heidelberg

Positions held

1990 - 1993

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Los Angeles

Since 1994

Head of Division "Molecular Embryology", German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg

2000

Professor of Molecular Embryology, DKFZ, Heidelberg

Since 2010

Founding Director, Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Mainz
Professor, Faculty of Biology, University of Mainz