Since 11/2020

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (2nd term of office, full-time)

2016 - 2020 

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University-Düsseldorf (1st term of office, full-time)

2012 -2016

Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine University-Düsseldorf (HHU)

2012 - 2016

Chairman of the Research Committee
Medical Faculty, HHU

2010

Call for a W3 professorship in neurophysiology, accepted
Executive Director of the Institute of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, HHU

2009

Call for a W2-Professorship for General Physiology, rejected
Medical Faculty, University of Bonn

2002 - 2010

Assistant (C1/C2) at the Institute of Physiology, University of Freiburg
Research: processing and subcellular distribution of neuronal ion channels and receptors (molecular biology, cell biology, protein biochemistry, fluorescence microscopy (LSM, FRET), electrophysiology)

2001- 2002

Postdoctoral researcher at the University of California San Francisco
UCSFresearch: PDZ interactions of glutamate receptors (cell biology, protein biochemistry)

1999-  2001

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Physiology, University of Tübingen
Research: Subcellular distribution of potassium channels (molecular biology, cell biology, protein biochemistry, fluorescence microscopy (LSM, FRET))

1996- 1999

Postdoctoral researcher at the Neurological University Hospital, University of Tübingen
Research: Degeneration and regeneration in the CNS (cell biology, protein biochemistry, neuroanatomy, in vivo electrophysiology)

2002

Habilitation in Physiology, University of Tübingen
Title: Molecular Characterization of the Signal Transduction of the Neurotrophin Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in Vivo

1997

Medical license

1996

Doctorate in Medicine, Institute of Physiology, University of Münster (summa cum laude)
Title: Activation of ATP-sensitive potassium channels by the epileptogenic substance pentylenetetrazol

1995

State examination in human medicine (grade: 1.49)

1989- 1995

Study of human medicine, University of Münster

2001

Research fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

1997

Research scholarship from the University of Tübingen

1996

Doctoral Award from the University of Münster

1993

Study Scholarship of the Cusanuswerk e.V.