| ORCID | | 0000-0002-2387-6203 |
| Google Scholar | | Google Scholar |
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| Nationality: | Swiss-German |
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| Positions: | Since 2005 | Professor at the Biozentrum |
| 1999 – 2006 | Independent Group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany |
| 1996 – 1999 | Postdoctoral Researcher at HHMI, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA |
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| Education: | 1992 – 1996 | Graduate student at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Genecenter, Martinsried, Germany |
| 1990 – 1991 | Studied Biochemistry at the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, Paris, France |
| 1986 – 1990 | Studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Applied Science Darmstadt, Germany |
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| Selected Awards & Honors: | 2021 | Elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |
| 2020 | Elected ASCB Fellow |
| 2010 | Binder Innovation Prize |
| 2009 | Elected EMBO Member |
| 2005 | Walther Flemming Medal of German Society for Cell Biology |
| 2002 | EMBO Young Investigator |
| 1996 | EMBO long-term Fellowship |
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| Selected Memberships: | 2021 | Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |
| 2021 | Associate Editor Traffic |
| Since 2010 | Member Editorial Board Molecular Biology of the Cell |
| 2009 | EMBO Membership (European Molecular Biology Organization) |
| 1996 | ASCB Membership (The American Society for Cell Biology) |
| 1994 | DGZ Membership (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zellbiologie) |
