Institution
Education/Training
2003
Dissertation (Dr. med.) “summa cum laude”
2001
Final Examination Medicine (MD)
1994 – 2001
Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
1994 – 2001
Study of Medicine at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany and Tufts University, Boston, USA
Research Experience/Academic Appointments
Since 2016
Professor of Molecular Medicine (W3), Kiel University
Since 2012
Director, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University
2016
Offer Chair position at Universite Poincare and INSERM 1256, Nancy (declined)
2012 – 2016
Professor of Molecular Medicine (W2), Kiel University
2007 – 2012
Professor of Molecular and Marine Medicine (W2), IKMB, Kiel University
2005 – 2007
Postdoctoral fellow (delegated), Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin (Prof. Dr. H. Lehrach)
2004 – 2005
Group leader Cell Biology, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (Prof. Dr. S. Schreiber), Kiel University
2001 – 2006
Training in Internal Medicine, 1st Medical Department, University Hospital Kiel
2001 – 2004
Postdoctoral fellow in the 1st Medical Department, University Hospital Kiel and the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University
1997 -1998
BMEP research fellowship at the Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, USA (P. Nishina and J. Naggert), and St. Elisabeth Hospital Boston, USA (J. Isner)
1996 – 2002
MD thesis at the Institute of Anatomy (Prof. Dr. J. Sievers), Kiel University
Important Scientific Prizes/Functions
Since 2017
Elected speaker of the project committee of the national e:Med BMBF systems medicine program
Since 2017
Member of the Steering board of the International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC)
Since 2017
Schleswig-Holstein Excellence Chair
Since 2017
Coordinator of the H2020 SYSCID consortium
Since 2008
Member of the steering board Cluster of Excellence Inflammation at Interfaces
2004
Prize for the best doctoral thesis of the Medical faculty of the University of Kiel (‘Dissertationspreis 2003’)
2003
Hensel-Research Prize of the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
2001
Recipient of the Graduate stipend of the “Novartis Stiftung für therapeutische Forschung”