Professorship - Department of Pharmacology, Heidelberg University
Group leader in the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (EMBL, Heidelberg)

Junior Group Leader at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin

Postdoctoral Fellow
Departments of Physiology and Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology
University of California, San Francisco
Advisor: Prof. Dr. David Julius

PhD degree (summa cum laude) in Cellbiology, University of Basel, Switzerland

PhD Graduate student
Friedrich-Miescher Institute (FMI) in Basel, Switzerland & The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, USA
(Lab relocated to The Scripps Research Institute in 2003)

Diploma Thesis (Diplom Biochemist)
Institute for Diabetis Research
Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany
Advisor: PD Dr. Reiner Lammers (Director: Dr. Ulrich Haering)

Biochemistry undergraduate studies,
University of Bochum and University of Frankfurt a.M.

ERC Consolidator Award (European Research Council)

Sir Hans Krebs-Preis (Medizinische Hochschule Hannover)

PHOENIX Pharmacy Science Award (Phoenix group)

Galenus-von-Pergamon Award (Springer Medizin; patronage: BMBF)

ERC Starting Grant (European Research Council)

Career Development Award (Human Frontier Science Program - HFSP)

Sofja Kovalevskaja Award (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - BMBF)

K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award (NIH) 

Sandler Postdoctoral Research Award

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSP)

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Swiss National Research Foundation and the Novartis Research Foundation

Most outstanding Ph.D. Thesis-Award selected by the Faculty for Natural Sciences (Philosophisch - Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät II), University of Basel, Switzerland

Ph.D. fellowship from the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, Germany

Dean of Research of the Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University

Faculty member of the Molecular Medical Partnership Unit (MMPU), a joint research venture between EMBL and the Heidelberg University Clinic (www.embl.de/mmpu/)

Associated faculty member of the “International Graduate School of Molecular & Cellular Biology” (HBIGS - www.hbigs.uni-heidelberg.de)

Reviewer for the Medical Research Council (MRC), UK

Representative of all Junior Group Leaders at the Max-Delbrück Center (MDC), Berlin, Germany

Reviewer for several scientific journals including Science, Nature, Nature Communications, Neuroscience, Pain and Molecular Pain