Born 1946 in Vienna. Study of chemistry, doctorate MPI for Experimental Medicine and MPI for Biophysical Chemistry (1974), Harvard University, Boston (1974-1978), EMBL, Heidelberg (1978-1987), Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London (1987-1994), Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (since 1994), Honorary Professor at the Dept. of Biochemistry, Free University of Berlin. Emeritus.