Curriculum Vitae

Since 2009

Honorary Professor in the Department of Biology (University of Padua), Padua, Italy (Director: Prof. Dr. Gerolamo Lanfranchi)

Since 2008

Director of Scientific Management at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, CNIO), Madrid, Spain (Director: Prof. Dr. Mariano Barbacid)

2005 - 2008

Research Group Leader and Habilitation in Neuroscience at the Center for Brain Research (Heads: Prof. Dr. Hans Lassmann; Prof. Dr. Jürgen Sandkühler) of the Medical University of Vienna, Austria

2004 - 2005

Manager of the FP6 Integrated Project "ZF-MODELS – Zebrafish Models for Human Development and Disease" in the Department of Genetics (Director: Prof. Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard) at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Tübingen, Germany)
This project involved 29 research groups at 17 partner institutions in 7 European countries and had a total budget of € 12.4 million.

2000 - 2003

Public Relations Manager and Technology Transfer Officer for the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Tübingen, Germany)

1999 - 2001

Postdoctoral Researcher in the group of Prof. Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Nobel Prize 1995) at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Tübingen, Germany)

1995 - 1998

PhD in the groups of Dr. Roy A. Quinlan and Dr. Alan R. Prescott at the Department of Biochemistry, Medical Sciences Institute, University of Dundee (Scotland, UK); including two brief research stays at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1994 - 1995

MSc (Master of Science) in the groups of Dr. Roy A. Quinlan and Dr. Alan R. Prescott at the Department of Biochemistry, Medical Sciences Institute, University of Dundee (Scotland, UK)

1991 - 1994

Undergraduate studies in Biology, Biochemistry and Mathematics at the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen and the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken (both Germany), and for research stays at the Université de Montréal (Canada) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany)

1990 - 1991

Studium generale in political sciences, economics, education science, and philosophy at the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany