2017

Elected as member of the Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences

Since 2016

Director of the Institute for History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (HHU)

2014 - 2015

Director of the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Cologne, Chairman of the Clinical Ethics Council

2014

Honorary doctoral degree of the Medical and Pharmaceutical University Carol Davila in Bucharest

2014/10 -
2012/08 

(Founding) Director of the Institute for History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Ulm
Chairman of the Ethics Committee (from 2011)
Speaker of the Humboldt Study Center for Philosophy and Humanities (from 2010)
Speaker of the Center for Medicine and Society (from 2009)
Chairman of the Committee for Clinical Ethics Consultation (from 2009)

2007

Habilitation in History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine

2003 - 2008

Research Assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the HHU,
since 2004 Deputy Director of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the HHU

2002 - 2003

Research Assistant at the Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine at the Georg-August-University Göttingen

2000 - 2002

AiP in Neurology and Psychiatry in Bremen and Bonn;
Scholarship holder of the Research Training Group GRK 246 "Pathogenesis of Diseases of the Nervous System" at the University Hospital Bonn

2001

Medical license to practice medicine

2000

Doctorate at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Ruhr University Bochum on the history of racial hygiene/eugenics

1999

3rd state examination in human medicine, Ruhr University Bochum