1993

Habilitation (venia legendi) for Biochemistry
Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Cologne, Germany
Mentor: Prof. Dr. U. Benjamin Kaupp (Director of the Institute of Biological Information Processing, Research Center Jülich, Germany)

1986

Dr. rer. nat. in Biochemistry (summa cum laude), University of Osnabrück
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. U. Benjamin Kaupp (University of Osnabrück, Germany, Department of Biophysics; Chair: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Junge)

since 2004

Professor (W3) of Biochemistry at the University of Oldenburg, Germany
since 2013 at the Department of Neuroscience,
2004-2012 at the Institute for Biology and Environmental Sciences

1993 ‒ 2004

PD Dr. at the Institute of Biological Information Processing in the Research Center Jülich, Germany, and Lecturer at the University of Cologne, Germany

1988 ‒ 2004

Senior scientist and head of the laboratory of Biochemistry at the Institute of Biological Information Processing in the Research Center Jülich, Germany

1987 ‒ 1988

Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Cell Biology, Stanford University, California, USA (Laboratory of Prof. Dr. Lubert Stryer)