| Scientific Career |
| 1981−1988 |
Study of biology at the universities of Mainz and Tübingen. |
| 1988 |
Scientific co-worker in the pharmaceutical research department of Ciba-Geigy,
Basel, Switzerland. |
| 1989−1994 |
PhD student at the Institute for Pharmakology of the Freie Universität Berlin
under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Günter Schultz (topic: "Pharmakological and
Electro-Physiological Characterisation of Receptor-Stimulated Non-Selective Ion
Channels in Myelotic Cells and Tissue Muscle Cells"). |
| 1994−1998 |
DFG-Scholar/Post-Doc and scientific co-worker at the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute - Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, U.S.A. supervised by Prof. Dr. Randall R. Reed. |
| 1998−2008 |
Group leader ("Molecular Mechanisms of the Sense of Smell") and DFG-Scholar
("Structure-Function Relationships of Olfactory Receptors") at the German Institute
of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke (WGL) - Molecular Genetics. |
| 2008−2010 |
Group leader ("Odorant Receprors for Key Aroma Compounds") at the
German Research Centre for Food Chemistry (WGL), Freising. |
| 2010 |
Postdoctoral lecture qualification (Topic: "Functional genomics of olfactory receptors -
odorant coding at the receptor level") at the University of Potsdam and the Technical
University of Munich. Associate Professor for Molecular Cell Biology and Chemoreception
at the Department of Chemistry, Technical Unoiversity of Munich. |
| since 2010 |
Head of the group "Physiological Effects of Food Ingredients" (Working Group III -
Physiology) at the German Research Centre for Food Chemistry (WGL), Freising. |