Curriculum Vitae
Born 1976, degree in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge, UK (2000). PhD under Marino Zerial at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany (2005). Postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA (2006-2011). Independent Max Planck Research Group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden (2011-2019). Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen (1999-2021), since 2022, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences.