Positions held 

Since 2023  
Founding and Executive Director, Institute of Quantitative and Computational Biosciences, Mainz, Germany

Since 2018  
Adjunct Director, Institute of Molecular Biology and Professor of Molecular Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

2013 – 2019  
Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA

2013 – 2018:  
Howard Hughes Investigator, Kansas City, USA

2013 – 2018:  
Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, USA

2009 – 2013  
Early Career Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Kansas City, USA

2009 – 2013:  
Associate Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA

2009 – 2012:  
Associate Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, USA

2004 – 2008:  
Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA

2002 – 2008:  
Assistant Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, USA

2000 – 2002:  
Research Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

1998 – 2000:  
Postdoc fellow, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

Education

1998   
PhD in Biochemistry, University College London, UK

1994   
MPhil in Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK 

1993  
BA in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK